clean_fac_col_txt: Cleans character data that has been scraped from websites

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Cleans character data that has been scraped from websites

Description

Cleans data usually associated with facilities or column names. Specifically removes special characters (except spaces and dashes), capitalizes COVID, standardizes COVID-19 references, removes new line indicators and excess white space, and changes "state-wide" to "statewide" (case-insensitive). Optionally capitalizes output.

Usage

clean_fac_col_txt(x, to_upper = FALSE)

Arguments

x	character vector to clean
to_upper	logical, convert characters to upper case

Value

cleaned character vector

Examples

clean_fac_col_txt(" Messy string \n\r data   ")

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