Collapse Comments — collapse_comments • tidyplus

Collapse comments coercing each element to a string (character scalar) and then collapsing into a single string using the '. ' separator.

collapse_comments(...)

Arguments

...: objects to be collapsed into a string.

Value

A string of the collapsed comments.

See also

Examples

collapse_comments("Saw fish", character(0), "Nice. .", NA_character_)
#> [1] "Saw fish. Nice."

data <- data.frame(
  visit = c(1,1,2, 2), 
  fish = 1:4,
  comment = c("Sunny day.  ", "Skinny fish", "Lost boot", NA))

if (FALSE) {
data |>
  dplyr::group_by(visit) |>
  dplyr::summarise(comment = collapse_comments(comment)) |>
  dplyr::ungroup()
}