Convert NA's to blanks

Converts all columns to character then converts all NA's to blanks.

Usage

na_to_blank(df)

Arguments

df

data frame. A data frame where NAs should be coverted to blanks. Cannot be a tibble with nested columns.

Value

data frame. All columns will be character and all NA's will be replaced with "".

See also

Other Standards Mapping: translate_to_dcmi(), wdds_to_dcmi(), wdds_to_pharos()

Examples

data.frame(a = 1:10, b = c(1:9,NA)) |>
  na_to_blank()
#> # A tibble: 10 × 2
#>    a     b    
#>    <chr> <chr>
#>  1 1     "1"  
#>  2 2     "2"  
#>  3 3     "3"  
#>  4 4     "4"  
#>  5 5     "5"  
#>  6 6     "6"  
#>  7 7     "7"  
#>  8 8     "8"  
#>  9 9     "9"  
#> 10 10    ""