title: Remove character from string in R
body: <p>I have a data frame as given below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>data$Latitude
  "+28.666428" "+28.666470" "+28.666376" "+28.666441" "+28.666330" "+28.666391"
  
  str(data$Latitude)
  Factor w/ 1368 levels "+10.037451","+10.037457",..
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to remove the "+" character from each of the Latitude values.
  I tried using <code>gsub()</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>data$Latitude&lt;-gsub("+","",as.character(factor(data$Latitude)))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This isn't working.</p>