How do I gsub ' with empty?

Question

For example for a string like this

NANYANG-GIRLS'-HIGH-SCHOOL

how do I use gsub to replace ' to empty and make it

NANYANG-GIRLS-HIGH-SCHOOL

when I do it in R, it shows error

Answer 1

You can use either of the following two approaches:

sec_name <- gsub('\'', '', sec_name, fixed=TRUE)
sec_name <- gsub("'", "", sec_name, fixed=TRUE)

This first approach is a correct version of what you were doing. Here, we use single quotes for the strings, but we escape the single quote to make it a literal single quote.