blank2na: Replaces blank-ish elements of a factor or character vector...

In emilBeBri/dttools: Useful Tools Built Around Data.Table

Description

Replaces blank-ish elements of a factor or character vector to NA

Usage

blank2na(x, na.strings = c("", ".", "NA", "na", "N/A", "n/a", "NaN", "nan"))

Arguments

x	a vector of factor or character or any type
na.strings	case sensitive strings that will be coverted to NA. The function will do a trimws(x,'both') before conversion. If NULL, do only trimws, no conversion to NA.

Value

Returns a vector trimws (always for factor, character) and NA converted (if matching na.strings). Attributes will also be kept ('label','labels', 'value.labels').

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