Remove blanks spaces from non-numeric variables imported from SPSS dataframes
When large SPSS datasets are imported into R, non-numeric fields frequently have numerous blank spaces prior to the text. The blank spaces make it difficult to summarize non-numeric text. The function is applied to an entire dataframe and removes the blank spaces.
rmv.blanks(object)
object |
Typically a dataframe created from an imported SPSS file. |
Returns a new dataframe without preceeding
Paul Bliese paul.bliese@moore.sc.edu
## Not run: library(foreign) mydata<-read.spss(file.choose(),to.data.frame=T,use.value.labels=F) mydata<-rmv.blanks(mydata) ## End(Not run)
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