Replace multiple strings in one gsub() or chartr() statement in R?

Question

I have a string variable containing alphabet[a-z], space[ ], and apostrophe[\'],eg. x <- \"a\'b c\" I want to replace apostrophe[\'] with blank[], and replac

Answer 1

I am a fan of the syntax that the %<>% and %>% opperators from the magrittr package provide.

library(magrittr)

x <- "a'b c"

x %<>%
  gsub("'", "", .) %>%
  gsub(" ", "_", .) 
x
##[1] "ab_c"

gusbfn is wonderful, but I like the chaining %>% allows.