Given
test<-"Low-Decarie, Etienne"
I wish to replace all punctuation with space
gsub(pattern="[:punct:]", x=test, replacement=" ")
but this produces
"Low-De arie, E ie e"
where no punctuation is replaced and apparently random letters are removed (though they may be associated with punctation as t for tab and n for next line).
Fellow MontReal user here.
Several options, sames results.
In R Base, just double the brackets
gsub(pattern="[[:punct:]]", test, replacement=" ")
[1] "Low Decarie Etienne"
Package stringr
has function str_replace_all
that does that.
library(stringr)
str_replace_all(test, "[[:punct:]]", " ")
Or keep only letters
str_replace_all(test, "[^[:alnum:]]", " ")
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