FreesearchR/reference/collapse_spaces.md

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# Substitue spaces/tabs with single space excluding text within quotes
Written assisted by Claude.ai. It is long and possibly too complicated,
but it works
## Usage
``` r
collapse_spaces(x, preserve_newlines = TRUE)
```
## Arguments
- x:
character string
- preserve_newlines:
flag to preserve new lines
## Value
character string
## Examples
``` r
collapse_spaces(c("cyl", "di sp","s e d","d e'dl e'"))
#> Error in collapse_spaces(c("cyl", "di sp", "s e d", "d e'dl e'")): could not find function "collapse_spaces"
```