Converting a \u escaped Unicode string to ASCII

Question

After reading all about iconv and Encoding, I am still confused.

I am scraping the source of a web page I have a string that looks like thi

Answer 1

With the stringi package:

> x <- 'pretty\\u003D\\u003Ebig'
> stringi::stri_unescape_unicode(x)
[1] "pretty=>big"