August 30th, 2011

@mrgunn This should work

library(stringr)
subset(df,str_length(str_trim(y))>0)

6:27 PM, Aug 30th, 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to mrgunn

@mrgunn do you then want to remove rows where that var is blank?

6:17 PM, Aug 30th, 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to mrgunn

@mrgunn you need to put a var name before the !
What is the data in that column? numeric? char? If numeric use as.numeric to turn "" to NA

6:05 PM, Aug 30th, 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to mrgunn

@cboettig congrats!

5:34 PM, Aug 30th, 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to cboettig

@recology_ works on chrome for me...

8:00 AM, Aug 30th, 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to sckottie