[R] Odp: character count

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Petr PIKAL <petr.pikal at precheza.cz> wrote:
> 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))
>

or perhaps:

x <- "abc def"
nchar(gsub(" ", "", x)) # 6