R: Count the Number of Characters

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`. 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

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