qdap (version 2.4.6)

scrubber: Clean Imported Text

Description

Use to clean text variables when importing a new data set. Removes extra white spaces other textual anomalies that may cause errors.

Usage

scrubber(
  text.var,
  num2word = FALSE,
  rm.quote = TRUE,
  fix.comma = TRUE,
  fix.space = TRUE,
  ...
)

Value

Returns a parsed character vector.

Arguments

text.var

The text variable.

num2word

logical If TRUE replaces a numbers with text representations.

rm.quote

logical If TRUE removes any \".

fix.comma

logical If TRUE removes any spaces before a comma.

fix.space

logical. If TRUE extra spaces before endmarks are removed.

...

Other arguments passed to replace_number.

See Also

strip

Examples

if (FALSE) {
x <- c("I like 456 dogs\t  , don't you?", 'The end"')
scrubber(x)
scrubber(x, TRUE)
}