Skip to contents

Clean a tibble or vector

clean_.Rd

Cleans column and author names

Usage

clean_df(data)

clean_authors(x)

clean_colnames(x)

Arguments

data

A tibble with bibliographic information.

x

A vector of strings

Value

Returns the input, but cleaner.

Examples

df <-  data.frame(
  X..title. = c(
    "EviAtlas: a tool for visualising evidence synthesis databases",
    "revtools: An R package to support article screening for evidence synthesis",
    "An automated approach to identifying search terms for systematic reviews",
    "Reproducible, flexible and high-throughput data extraction from primary literature"),
  YEAR = c("2019", "2019", "2019", "2019"),
  authors = c(
    "Haddaway et al",
    "Westgate",
    "EM Grames AND AN Stillman  & MW Tingley and CS Elphick",
    "Pick et al")
)

clean_df(df)
#>                                                                                title
#> 1                      EviAtlas: a tool for visualising evidence synthesis databases
#> 2         revtools: An R package to support article screening for evidence synthesis
#> 3           An automated approach to identifying search terms for systematic reviews
#> 4 Reproducible, flexible and high-throughput data extraction from primary literature
#>   year                                                  author
#> 1 2019                                          Haddaway et al
#> 2 2019                                                Westgate
#> 3 2019 EM Grames and AN Stillman and MW Tingley and CS Elphick
#> 4 2019                                              Pick et al

# or use sub-functions
colnames(df) <- clean_colnames(df)
# colnames(df) <- clean_colnames(colnames(df)) # also works
df$author <- clean_authors(df$author)