Remove whitespaces in each levels of a factor

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Hello,

I have a data set with some column names:

> levels(down_train$CUST_REGION_DESCR)
[1] "CORPORATE REGION         " "MOUNTAIN WEST REGION"      "NORTH CENTRAL REGION"     
[4] "NORTH EAST REGION        " "OHIO VALLEY REGION       " "SOUTH CENTRAL REGION     "
[7] "SOUTH EAST REGION        " "WESTERN REGION           "

There are some white spaces within in the regions' names such as

"CORPORATE REGION         "

How can get rid of the white spaces?

Thank you.

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Here's one way:

library(tidyverse)

down_train <- data.frame(CUST_REGION_DESCR = 
  c("CORPORATE REGION         ",
    "MOUNTAIN WEST REGION",
    "NORTH CENTRAL REGION",
    "NORTH EAST REGION        ",
    "OHIO VALLEY REGION       ",
    "SOUTH CENTRAL REGION     ",
    "SOUTH EAST REGION        ",
    "WESTERN REGION           "))

levels(down_train$CUST_REGION_DESCR)
[1] "CORPORATE REGION         "
[2] "MOUNTAIN WEST REGION"     
[3] "NORTH CENTRAL REGION"     
[4] "NORTH EAST REGION        "
[5] "OHIO VALLEY REGION       "
[6] "SOUTH CENTRAL REGION     "
[7] "SOUTH EAST REGION        "
[8] "WESTERN REGION           "

down_train <- 
  down_train %>%
  dplyr::mutate(regions_no_ws = 
           forcats::fct_relabel(CUST_REGION_DESCR, ~ trimws(.x)))

levels(down_train$regions_no_ws)
[1] "CORPORATE REGION"     "MOUNTAIN WEST REGION"
[3] "NORTH CENTRAL REGION" "NORTH EAST REGION"   
[5] "OHIO VALLEY REGION"   "SOUTH CENTRAL REGION"
[7] "SOUTH EAST REGION"    "WESTERN REGION"
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