cleanSpaces function

Drop leading, trailing and repeated spaces in character strings

cleanSpaces(x, double = TRUE, lead = TRUE, trail = TRUE)

Arguments

• x: A vector of character strings to modify
• double: Replace any number of consecutive blank spaces by a single blank. Default is TRUE.
• lead: Drop spaces before first non-empty character. Default is TRUE.
• trail: Drop spaces after last non-empty character. Default is TRUE.

Returns

A vector of class character