.BG
.FN length
.TL
Length of a Vector or List
.CS
length(x)
length(x) \(<- value
.AG x
any object.
.RT
an integer that gives the length of the
object, i.e., the number of elements in the object.
Attributes of the object are ignored; `length' operates
on the data portion of the object.
This may result in inconsistent data objects, since the length
and other attributes may not match.
.EX
.Si "z \(<- list(a=1,b=letters,c=1:5)"
.Si length(z)
[1] 3
.KW attribute
.WR
