Removing curly brackets in R

Question

How to remove curly brackets in R? Eg. "{abcd}" to "abcd"

How can I use gsub function in R to do this? If any other method is available, please suggest.

Answer 1

Try this

gsub("\\{|\\}", "", "{abcd}")
[1] "abcd"

Or this

gsub("[{}]", "", "{abcd}")