parsing html containing (non-breaking space)

Question

I am using rvest to parse a website. I\'m hitting a wall with these little non-breaking spaces. How does one remove the whitespace that is created by the

Answer 1

jdharrison answered:

gsub("\\W", "", bodytext)

and, that will work but you can use:

gsub("[[:space:]]", "", bodytext)

which will remove all Space characters: tab, newline, vertical tab, form feed, carriage return, space and possibly other locale-dependent characters. It's a very readable alternative to other, cryptic regex classes.