Convert from lowercase to uppercase all values in all character variables in dataframe

Question

I have a mixed dataframe of character and numeric variables.

city,hs_cd,sl_no,col_01,col_02,col_03
Austin,1,2,,46,Female
Austin,1,3,,32,Male
Austin,1,4,,27,         


        

Answer 1

If you need to deal with data.frames that include factors you can use:

df = data.frame(v1=letters[1:5],v2=1:5,v3=letters[10:14],v4=as.factor(letters[1:5]),v5=runif(5),stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

df
    v1 v2 v3 v4        v5
    1  a  1  j  a 0.1774909
    2  b  2  k  b 0.4405019
    3  c  3  l  c 0.7042878
    4  d  4  m  d 0.8829965
    5  e  5  n  e 0.9702505


sapply(df,class)
         v1          v2          v3          v4          v5
"character"   "integer" "character"    "factor"   "numeric"

Use mutate_each_ to convert factors to character then convert all to uppercase

   upper_it = function(X){X %>% mutate_each_( funs(as.character(.)), names( .[sapply(., is.factor)] )) %>%
   mutate_each_( funs(toupper), names( .[sapply(., is.character)] ))}   # convert factor to character then uppercase

Gives

  upper_it(df)
      v1 v2 v3 v4
    1  A  1  J  A
    2  B  2  K  B
    3  C  3  L  C
    4  D  4  M  D
    5  E  5  N  E

While

sapply( upper_it(df),class)
         v1          v2          v3          v4          v5
"character"   "integer" "character" "character"   "numeric"