Removing Whitespace From a Whole Data Frame in R

Question

I\'ve been trying to remove the white space that I have in a data frame (using R). The data frame is large (>1gb) and has multiple columns that contains whi

Answer 1

Picking up on Fremzy and Mielniczuk, I came to the following solution:

data.frame(lapply(df, function(x) if(class(x)=="character") trimws(x) else(x)), stringsAsFactors=F)

It works for mixed numeric/charactert dataframes manipulates only character-columns.