| nchar {base} | R Documentation |
Count the Number of Characters
Description
nchar takes a character vector as an argument and
returns a vector whose elements contain the number of characters in
the corresponding element of x.
It only accepts character vectors as arguments if you want to operate
on other objects passing them through deparse first will be required.
Usage
nchar(x)See Also
strwidth giving width of strings for plotting;
paste, substr, strsplit
Examples
x<-c("asfef","qwerty","yuiop[","b","stuff.blah.yech")
nchar(x)
# 5 6 6 1 15
nchar(deparse(mean))
# 23 1 16 45 11 64 2 17 50 43 2 17 1