blank_values: Blank values
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blank_values

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Blank values

Description

Detect blank values; select, remove columns that are entirely blank

Usage

is_blank(x, na_blank = FALSE, ws = TRUE)

select_blank_cols(x, na_blank = FALSE, ws = TRUE)

remove_blank_cols(x, na_blank = FALSE, ws = TRUE)

is_blank_cols(x, names = TRUE, na_blank = FALSE, ws = TRUE)

Arguments

`x`	An object, or `data.frame` for `⁠*_cols()⁠` functions
`na_blank`	Logical, if `TRUE` treats `NA` values as blank
`ws`	Logical, when `TRUE` treats elements that are entirely whitespace as blanks
`names`	Logical, if `TRUE` (default) will return column names as names of vector

Details

Blank values are values that do not contain any text

Value

is_blank() a logical vector indicating blank elements in x
select_blank_cols() x with only columns that are all blank
remove_blank_cols() x without columns of only blank
is_blank_cols() a logical vector: TRUE all rows of column are blank, otherwise FALSE