| nchar {base} | R Documentation |
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.
nchar(x)
x |
character vector, or a vector to be coerced to a character vector. |
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.
The number of characters as the string will be printed (integer
2 for a missing string).
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
strwidth giving width of strings for plotting;
paste, substr, strsplit
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