replace "\" character with gsub R

Question

Does anybody knows how can i replace "\\" in r?

Other answers have posted something like:

l <- "1120190\neconomic"
gsub("\\", "", l, fixed=TRUE)

But didn't work in my case.

Answer 1

The \\n is a symbol for newline and if you want to replace it with space you can use the following:

l <- "1120190\neconomic"
cat(l)
gsub("\n", " ", l, fixed=TRUE)

Note, that the output would be:

1120190
economic
[1] "1120190 economic"