How to remove HTML tags from string in R Programming

Question

I am trying to remove HTML tags from a character string in R.

For example:

"hello, how are you?<br />"

Is there a simple way to remove the <br />?

Answer 1

Try this simple code to remove the <br />:

string <- "hello, how are you?<br />"
gsub("<.*/>","",string)
[1] "hello, how are you?"

Hope this helps.