.BG
.FN nchar
.TL
Lengths of Character Strings
.CS
nchar(x)
.AG x
any S object.
.RT
a numeric vector the same length as `x',
containing the number of characters in each of the
elements of `x'.
Note that `x' will be coerced to character, regardless of what it currently
contains.
Something will always happen, but in the case of non-atomic data, the result
may be somewhat surprising.
.EX
maxwid <- max(nchar(labels)) #max field needed
.WR
