R/trim.r

In AndreasFischer1985/JDDM: A number of functions to facilitate the layouting of LaTeX-manuscripts in a highly automated manner directly from R

#' Function trim
#' 
#' Trims elements of a character vector.
#' @param x A character vector.
#' @details Trims elements of a character vector.
#' @keywords preprocessing
#' @export
#' @examples
#' trim(" Hi  ")

trim <- function (x) 
gsub("(^[ \n\r\t]+|[ \n\r\t]+$)", "", x)