R: Removing a slash and one followed character from strings in R

I have some race data where the values contain ‘\n’, such as in ‘Biracial or Multiracial\nBlack or African American\nWhite or Caucasian’ or ‘White or Caucasian\nBlack or African American’. Is there a way to remove the slash and the followed letter n? (preferably using str_remove or gsub)

>Solution :

You can use double \ for escaping.

For instance:

library(stringr)

str_remove("Multiracial\nBlack" , "\\n")

And the same for gsub():

gsub("\\n", "", "Multiracial\nBlack")

Output:

[1] "MultiracialBlack"

I hope you consider \n to be line brake, not two symbols.