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Remove Backslash and Quotations in R

How do I remove the quotes from the following string in R?

test = "\"LAST4\""
noquote(test)
[1] "LAST4"

I'm reading in the data manually and I can't remove the quotations and backslashes.

Solution

  • You don't need to escape anything if you don't use a regex:

    gsub('\"', "", test, fixed = TRUE)
#[1] "LAST4"