How to remove a particular character from a type character

Question

In R I have the following problem.

x="2017-10-03"

I want to trasform it to

x="20171003"

Is it possible?

Search before asking a question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11936339/in-r-replace-text-within-a-string — MikeVelazco, May 17 '18 at 13:19
@MikeVelazco What do you think about it? I think that i didn't it? You're pro than me to find answers. — Skills, May 17 '18 at 13:24
Sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but as RMonaco says, there is a previous answer that you could have found if you had looked for it. — MikeVelazco, May 17 '18 at 17:26

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 17 '18 at 13:21

It seems like you are wanting a function similar to a replace() for strings found in many languages like Python and Java, I would use the gsub() function within R.

Here is an old answer I found that explains it nicely

I would imagine your example would look like

gsub("-","",x)

How to remove a particular character from a type character

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