[R] Length of a string

[Marc Schwartz]

Kevin,

Sorry, I forgot one step in my first reply.  

Strsplit results in a list, so use unlist() to reduce the list to a
vector.

So add:

> newfoo <- unlist(newfoo)

> newfoo
[1] "m" "y" "f" "o" "o"

Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Schwartz [mailto:MSchwartz at MedAnalytics.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 8:11 PM
> To: 'Ko-Kang Kevin Wang'
> Cc: 'R Help'
> Subject: RE: [R] Length of a string
> 
> Kevin,
> 
> Use strsplit(foo,"").
> 
> > foo <- "myfoo"
> > newfoo <- strsplit(foo,"")
> > newfoo
> [[1]]
> [1] "m" "y" "f" "o" "o"
> 
> For more information:
> 
> ?strsplit
> 
> Marc
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:owner-r-
> > help at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Ko-Kang Kevin Wang
> > Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 6:17 PM
> > To: Ole Christensen
> > Cc: R Help
> > Subject: Re: [R] Length of a string
> >
> > 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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