remove all line breaks (enter symbols) from the string using R
How to remove all line breaks (enter symbols) from the string using R? I've tried gsub("\n", "", my_string) , but it doesn't work, because new line and line break aren't equal. Thank you! You need to strip \r and \n to remove carriage returns and new lines. x <- "foo\nbar\rbaz\r\nquux" gsub("[\r\n]", "", x) ## [1] "foobarbazquux" Or library(stringr) str_replace_all(x, "[\r\n]" , "") ## [1] "foobarbazquux" I just wanted to note here that if you want to insert spaces where you found newlines the best option is to use the following: gsub("\r?\n|\r", " ", x) which will insert only one space