nchar                  package: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)

Arguments:

       x: character vector.

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

