Removing parenthesis in R

Question

I am trying to remove parentheses from a string value in this case this one:

(40.703707008, -73.943257966)

I can\'t seem to find a post with code that works;

Answer 1

These are metacharacters that either needs to be escaped (with \\) or we can place it in a square bracket to read it as character.

gsub("[()]", "", x)
#[1] "40.703707008, -73.943257966"