Replace special character in a data frame column

Question

I have a data frame like below

Des              NewColumn
a                27.82 / 23.65 / 27.82
c                32.25 / 31 / 32.25 / 31

I need / to be replaced by > and below is what i need

Des              NewColumn
a                27.82 > 23.65 > 27.82
c                32.25 > 31 > 32.25 > 31

Answer 1

We can use gsub

gsub("[/]", ">", df1$NewColumn)

or use chartr

chartr("/", ">", df1$NewColumn)

Answer 2

We can use stringr library:

 library(stringr)
 str_replace_all(df$NewColumn,"/",">")