How to remove an part of values in R

Question

I have got a data frame like this:

ID A B 1 x5.11 2,34 2 x5.57 5,36 3 x6,13 0,45

I would like to remove the 'x' of all values of the column A. How might I best accomplish this in R.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I have found a very easy way:

data.frama$A <- gsub("x", "", data.frame$A)