| 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.
Usage
nchar(x)Arguments
x |
character vector, or a vector to be coerced to a character vector. |
Details
The internal equivalent of as.character is performed on
x. If you want to operate
on non-vector objects passing them through deparse first
will be required.
Value
The number of characters as the string will be printed (integer
2 for a missing string).
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