[R] Length of string?

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Mon Oct 24 17:32:43 CEST 2011


On Oct 24, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Kevin Burton wrote:

> This is very basic but I have not been able to find an answer.  
> Basically I
> want to find the length of a string.
>
> length("Text")
>

?nchar

> returns 1 so I know that is not right.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kevin
>
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David Winsemius, MD
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