几个选项,sames结果.

在R Base中,只有两个括号

gsub(pattern="[[:punct:]]",test,replacement=" ")

[1] "Low Decarie  Etienne"

包stringr具有这样的功能str_replace_all.

library(stringr)
str_replace_all(test,"[[:punct:]]"," ")

或只保留信件

str_replace_all(test,"[^[:alnum:]]"," ")