blank_values {mark}

Blank values

Description

Detect blank values; select, remove columns that are entirely blank

Usage

is_blank(x, na_blank = FALSE, ws = TRUE)

select_blank_cols(x, na_blank = FALSE, ws = TRUE)

remove_blank_cols(x, na_blank = FALSE, ws = TRUE)

is_blank_cols(x, names = TRUE, na_blank = FALSE, ws = TRUE)

Arguments

x

An object, or data.frame for ⁠*_cols()⁠ functions

na_blank

Logical, if TRUE treats NA values as blank

ws

Logical, when TRUE treats elements that are entirely whitespace as blanks

names

Logical, if TRUE (default) will return column names as names of vector

Details

Blank values are values that do not contain any text

Value

• is_blank() a logical vector indicating blank elements in x

• select_blank_cols() x with only columns that are all blank

• remove_blank_cols() x without columns of only blank

• is_blank_cols() a logical vector: TRUE all rows of column are blank, otherwise FALSE