How can I trim leading and trailing white space?

Question

I am having some troubles with leading and trailing white space in a data.frame.

For example, I like to take a look at a specific row in a data.fra

Answer 1

The best method is trimws().

The following code will apply this function to the entire dataframe.

mydataframe<- data.frame(lapply(mydataframe, trimws),stringsAsFactors = FALSE)