replace_empty {arkhe}

Replace Empty String

Description

Replaces empty strings.

Usage

replace_empty(x, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'matrix'
replace_empty(x, value)

## S4 method for signature 'data.frame'
replace_empty(x, value)

Arguments

x

An R object (should be a matrix or a data.frame).

...

Currently not used.

value

A possible replacement value.

Author(s)

N. Frerebeau

See Also

Other data cleaning tools: clean_whitespace(), remove_Inf(), remove_NA(), remove_constant(), remove_empty(), remove_zero(), replace_Inf(), replace_NA(), replace_zero()

Examples

## Create a data matrix
X <- matrix(sample(LETTERS, 25, TRUE), nrow = 5, ncol = 5)

## Add empty string
k <- sample(1:25, 3, FALSE)
X[k] <- ""
X

## Remove rows with empty strings
remove_empty(X, margin = 1)

## Replace empty strings
replace_empty(X, value = "XXX")