Removing certain characters from a string in R

Question

I have a string in R which contains a large amount of words. When viewing the string I get a large amount of text which includes text similar to the following:

Answer 1

This should work

gsub('\u009c','','\u009cYes yes for ever for ever the boys ')
"Yes yes for ever for ever the boys "

Here 009c is the hexadecimal number of unicode. You must always specify 4 hexadecimal digits. If you have many , one solution is to separate them by a pipe:

gsub('\u009c|\u00F0','','\u009cYes yes \u00F0for ever for ever the boys and the girls')

"Yes yes for ever for ever the boys and the girls"

Answer 2

try: gsub('\\$', '', '$5.00$')