| trimws {base} | R Documentation |
Remove leading and/or trailing whitespace from character strings.
trimws(x, which = c("both", "left", "right"))
x |
a character vector |
which |
a character string specifying whether to remove both
leading and trailing whitespace (default), or only leading
( |
For portability, ‘whitespace’ is taken as the character class
[ \t\r\n] (space, horizontal tab, line feed, carriage return).
x <- " Some text. " x trimws(x) trimws(x, "l") trimws(x, "r")