[R] Odp: character count

[Petr PIKAL]

Hi


r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 12.12.2008 16:31:10:

> Dear list,
> I have a variable that consists of typed responses. I wish to compute
> a variable equal to the number of characters in the original variable.
> For example:
> 
> > x <- c("convert this to 32 because it has 32 characters", "this one 
has 22 
> characters", "12 characters")
> 
> [Some magic function here]

If you consider space as a character then

 nchar(x)

gives you the result.

If not so such construction can do it

 unlist(lapply(lapply(strsplit(x, " "), paste, collapse=""), nchar))

Regards
Petr

> 
> > x
> [1] 32 22 12
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
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