How do I strip dollar signs ($) from data/ escape special characters in R?
问题 I've been using gsub("toreplace","replacement", myvector) to clean out data in R. While this works for commas and the like, removing "$" has no effect. So if I do gsub("$","",myvector) all the dollar signs remain in place. I think this is because $ is a special character in R. I tried escaping it "\$" but that yields the same result (no effect). And I couldn't find a resource on escaping special characters in R. Obviously I should do this in preprocessing. But I was wondering if anyone out