[R] Length of a string

[Ole Christensen]

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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