Replace spaces in all elements of a character vector with underscores

Replace spaces in all elements of a character vector with underscores

Usage

replace_spaces(x, new_char = "_")

Arguments

x

a character vector

new_char

the character to replace spaces (default: _)

Value

character vector with all spaces replaced with new_char

Author

Kelly Sovacool, sovacool@umich.edu

Examples

dat <- data.frame(
  dx = c("outcome 1", "outcome 2", "outcome 1"),
  a = 1:3, b = c(5, 7, 1)
)
dat$dx <- replace_spaces(dat$dx)
dat
#>          dx a b
#> 1 outcome_1 1 5
#> 2 outcome_2 2 7
#> 3 outcome_1 3 1