Multiple, leading and trailing white spaces as well as wrong encodings may
cause serious problems in information dealing with taxonomic names.
The function clean_strings get rid of them.
Usage
clean_strings(x, ...)
# S4 method for character
clean_strings(x, from = "utf8", to = "utf8", ...)
# S4 method for factor
clean_strings(x, from = "utf8", to = "utf8", ...)
# S4 method for data.frame
clean_strings(x, from = "utf8", to = "utf8", ...)
Value
The same as input x.
Arguments
x
Object to be cleaned.
...
Further arguments passed among methods (not yet in use).
This function automatically deletes leading, trailing and multiple white
spaces, either in strings (method character), levels (method
factor or in single columns (method data.frame).