The “trimws” Function in R

• Package: Base R (No specific package, it’s a built-in function)

• Purpose: To trim whitespace from the beginning and/or end of each string in a character vector.

• General Class: String Manipulation

• Required Argument(s):

• x: A character vector from which to trim whitespace.

• Notable Optional Arguments:

• None

• Example:

• # Example usage
  words <- c(" apple", "banana ", " orange ", "grape")
  
  # Trim whitespace from both sides of each string
  trimmed_words <- trimws(words)
  
  print(trimmed_words)

• In this example, the trimws function from base R is used to trim whitespace from both sides of each string in the character vector words. The result is a character vector with trimmed strings.