Mutate All Columns to Character

Source: R/mutate_all_.R

Mutate All Columns to Character

mutate_all_char(data)

Arguments

data

A dataframe or tibble.

See also

mutate_all

Examples

library(tidyverse)
test_data <- 
        tibble(A = sample(c(NA_integer_, 1:3), size = 10, replace = TRUE),
               B = sample(c(NA_integer_, 4:6), size = 10, replace = TRUE),
               C = sample(c(" apple ", "banana ", "    orange", NA_character_), size = 10, replace = TRUE))

# Mutate all to character
mutate_all_char(test_data)

#> # A tibble: 10 x 3
#>    A     B     C           
#>    <chr> <chr> <chr>       
#>  1 3     5     "    orange"
#>  2 1     5     "banana "   
#>  3 1     4     "banana "   
#>  4 3     4     "    orange"
#>  5 3     NA     NA         
#>  6 NA    6     "banana "   
#>  7 1     6     "banana "   
#>  8 NA    5     "banana "   
#>  9 1     6     " apple "   
#> 10 2     6     " apple "   


# Trim whitespace at all character cols 
mutate_all_trimws(test_data,
                  which = "both")

#> Error: Problem with `mutate()` input `C`.
#> x unused argument (whitespace = whitespace)
#> ℹ Input `C` is `(structure(function (..., .x = ..1, .y = ..2, . = ..1) ...`.

mutate_all_trimws(test_data,
                  which = "left")

#> Error: Problem with `mutate()` input `C`.
#> x unused argument (whitespace = whitespace)
#> ℹ Input `C` is `(structure(function (..., .x = ..1, .y = ..2, . = ..1) ...`.

mutate_all_trimws(test_data,
                  which = "right")

#> Error: Problem with `mutate()` input `C`.
#> x unused argument (whitespace = whitespace)
#> ℹ Input `C` is `(structure(function (..., .x = ..1, .y = ..2, . = ..1) ...`.