title: Removing special characters from CSV file in R
body: <p>I have a CSV file that includes special characters that I want to remove using R, so I can perform a word count.</p>
  
  <p>By special characters I mean; ! " £ $ % ^ &amp; * () -_ + = [ ] { } : ; ' @ # ~ ? . , > &lt; \ |</p>
  
  <p>I have seen a few tutorials online but I am unsure which one to follow. Please could someone advise (with code), how to remove such characters.</p>
  
  <pre><code>MyData &lt;-read.csv(file="F:\\All.csv", header=TRUE, sep="," 
  MyData
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/6rTo8.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Picture of CSV file with special characters I want to remove</a></p>