[R] Length of a string

[Roger Peng]

Try 

foo <- "myfoo"
unlist(strsplit(foo, split = ""))

-roger
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On Sun, 19 May 2002, Ko-Kang Kevin Wang wrote:

> 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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> From: "Ole Christensen" <o.christensen at lancaster.ac.uk>
> To: "Ko-Kang Kevin Wang" <kwan022 at stat.auckland.ac.nz>
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> 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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