title: R cleaning up a character and converting it into a numeric
body: <p>R cleaning up a character string and converting it into a numeric</p>
  
  <p>I have a character string</p>
  
  <pre><code>abc &lt;-  "Â 267750Â"
  
  class(abc)
  "character"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What to I need to do to abc to get rid of "Â Â" and convert it from character to numeric.
  Perhaps as.numeric will work but I need to get rid of "Â Â" first.</p>
  
  <p>I want to convert the above to:</p>
  
  <pre><code>abc
  267750
  class(abc)
   "numeric"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thank you for your help.</p>