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regex - R gsub a single double quotation mark

I have a field of strings in a data frame all similar to:

"Young Adult – 8-9"" 

where the inner single " is what I want to replace with nothing to get:

"Young Adult - 8-9"

How can I do this? I tried to escape with a double backslash:

gsub(""", "", string)

but got this error: Error: unexpected string constant in "gsub(""", ""

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You do not need to escape a double quote in a regular expression. Just use """ or '"' to match a single double quote.

s = "Young Adult – 8-9""
s
[1] "Young Adult – 8-9""
gsub(""", "", s)
[1] "Young Adult – 8-9"
gsub('"', "", s)
[1] "Young Adult – 8-9"

See this IDEONE demo

NOTE: Since you want to remove some literal text, you do not even need a regex, use fixed=TRUE argument to speed up the operation:

gsub('"', "", s, fixed=TRUE)

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