[R] How to remove white spaces

[Bos, Roger]

All,

I am storing a string of email addresses in a table and when I retrieve
them using a RODBC statement such as:

test = sqlQuery(xf, "select specialist from
roger_sector_specialist")$specialist

'test' is of mode list and includes a bunch of white space.  As a
work-around I convert 'test' to a character string, split it based on a
white space, then take the first element:

test = strsplit(as.character(test), " ")
emaillist = test[[1]][1]
   
But I am sure there is a better way.  I did help.search("trim white
space") and R didn't return anything, which I found strange.  Any
advice?

Thanks,

Roger

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