Hello, Is this expected ? > nchar( c( "", NA ) ) [1] 0 2 Should not the second one be NA ? Romain -- Romain Francois Professional R Enthusiast +33(0) 6 28 91 30 30 http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr |- http://bit.ly/98Uf7u : Rcpp 0.8.1 |- http://bit.ly/c6YnCi : graph gallery collage `- http://bit.ly/bZ7ltC : inline 0.3.5