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

Using rex may make this type of task a little simpler. Also I am not able to reproduce your encoding problems, the following correctly substitutes the space regardless of encoding on my machine. (It is the same solution as [[:space:]] though, so likely has the same issue for you)

re_substitutes(bodytext, rex(spaces), "", global = TRUE)

#> [1] "foo"