[R] Length of a string

[Ko-Kang Kevin Wang]

It worked!  Thanks a lot for the prompt reply.

However this remind me of another question.  If I entered my string like:
    foo <- "myfoo"
then, if there anyway to convert foo into a form that is:
   c("m", "y", "f", "o", "o")
directly?

Thanks again in advance,

Kevin

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Ko-Kang Kevin Wang
Post Graduate PGDipSci Student
Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
New Zealand
www.stat.auckand.ac.nz/~kwan022

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ole Christensen" <o.christensen at lancaster.ac.uk>
To: "Ko-Kang Kevin Wang" <kwan022 at stat.auckland.ac.nz>
Cc: "R Help" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [R] Length of a string


> foo <- "myfoo"
> nchar(foo)
> [1] 5
>
> Ole
>
>
> Ko-Kang Kevin Wang wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Suppose I have created something like this in R:
> >   foo <- "myfoo"
> > and I want to find out the number of character in foo (in other words, R
> > should return 5 since "myfoo" has 5 charactors.
> >
> > How can I do it?  I tried:
> >   length(foo)
> > but it returned 1.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Kevin
> >
>
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> > Department of Statistics
> > University of Auckland
> > New Zealand
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