remove all line breaks (enter symbols) from the string using R

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You need to strip \r and \n to remove carriage returns and new lines.

x <- "foo\nbar\rbaz\r\nquux"
gsub("[\r\n]", "", x)
## [1] "foobarbazquux"

Or

library(stringr)
str_replace_all(x, "[\r\n]" , "")
## [1] "foobarbazquux"

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