Replace specific characters within strings

Question

I would like to remove specific characters from strings within a vector, similar to the Find and Replace feature in Excel.

Here are the data I start with:<

Answer 1

Use the stringi package:

require(stringi)

group<-data.frame(c("12357e", "12575e", "197e18", "e18947"))
stri_replace_all(group[,1], "", fixed="e")
[1] "12357" "12575" "19718" "18947"