identifyWhitespace: A checkFunction for identifying whitespace

In dataReporter: Reproducible Data Screening Checks and Report of Possible Errors

Description

A checkFunction to be called from check that identifies prefixed and suffixed whitespace(s) in character, (haven_)labelled or factor variables.

Usage

identifyWhitespace(v, nMax = 10)

Arguments

v	A character, (haven_)labelled or factor variable to check.
nMax	The maximum number of problematic values to report. Default is 10. Set to Inf if all problematic values are to be included in the outputted message, or to 0 for no output.

Value

A checkResult with three entires: $problem (a logical indicating whether any whitespaces were fount), $message (a message describing which values were prefixed or suffixed with whitespace) and $problemValues (the problematic values). Note that only unique values are printed in the message, and that they are sorted alphabetically.

See Also

check, allCheckFunctions, checkFunction, checkResult

Examples

 identifyWhitespace(c("a", " b", "c", "d ", "e  "))

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