scrubber function

Clean Imported Text

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

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

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.

Returns

Returns a parsed character vector.

Examples

## Not run:

x <- c("I like 456 dogs\t  , don't you?", 'The end"')
scrubber(x)
scrubber(x, TRUE)
## End(Not run)

See Also

strip