convert_na_to_blanks: Convert NAs Into Blank Strings

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Convert NAs Into Blank Strings

Description

Turn NAs to blank strings .

Usage

convert_na_to_blanks(x)

## Default S3 method:
convert_na_to_blanks(x)

## S3 method for class 'character'
convert_na_to_blanks(x)

## S3 method for class 'list'
convert_na_to_blanks(x)

## S3 method for class 'data.frame'
convert_na_to_blanks(x)

Arguments

x	Any R object

Details

The default methods simply returns its input unchanged. The character method turns every instance of NA_character_ or NA into "" while preserving all attributes. When given a data frame as input the function keeps all non-character columns as is and applies the just described logic to character all attributes such as labels are preserved.

Value

An object of the same class as the input

See Also

Utilities for Formatting Observations: convert_blanks_to_na(), yn_to_numeric()

Examples

library(tibble)

convert_na_to_blanks(c("a", "b", NA, "d", NA))

df <- tribble(
  ~USUBJID,   ~RFICDTC,
  "1001", "2000-01-01",
  "1002", "2001-01-01",
  "1003",           NA
)
print(df)
convert_na_to_blanks(df)

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