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KRStam
KRStam

Reputation: 413

Replace special characters with gsub

Is there a way to replace special character strings in R with gsub? I have a few columns which have the \\n in them and I wish to change it to \n but the gsub doesn't work

Here is an example:

gsub("\\n", "\n", "\\n this is a test \\n data")

I receive the following output:

[1] "\\n this is a test \\n data"

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1004

Answers (1)

xraynaud
xraynaud

Reputation: 2126

You can do what you want by adding the argument fixed=T at the end of your gsub commmand. 

gsub("\\n", "\n", "\\n this is a test \\n data",fixed=T)
[1] "\n this is a test \n data"

Upvotes: 3

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