scrubber: Clean Imported Text

In trinker/qdap2: Bridging the gap between qualitative data and quantitative analysis

Description

Use to clean text variables when importing a new data set. Removes extra white spaces other textual anomalies that may cause errors.

Usage

  scrubber(text.var, num2word = FALSE, rm.quote = TRUE,
    fix.comma = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

text.var	The text variable.
num2word	logical If TRUE replaces a numbers with text representations.
fix.comma	logical If TRUE removes any spaces before a comma.
rm.quote	logical If TRUE removes and \".
...	Other arguments passed to replace_number.

Value

Returns a parsed character vector.

See Also

strip

Examples

x <- c("I like 456 dogs\t  , don't you?\"")
scrubber(x)
scrubber(x, TRUE)

trinker/qdap2 documentation built on May 31, 2019, 9:47 p.m.