Removing digits and special characters

How do I remove digits and special characters from a string using grep1()

{stringr} is easier

library(stringr)
the_pattern <- "[:digit:]|[:punct:]"
the_string <- "6abc#"
the_string
#> [1] "6abc#"
str_remove_all(the_string,the_pattern)
#> [1] "abc"

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