[R] Length of string?

[Timothy Bates]

Dear Kevin,
# this works
nchar("read the help for length”)
[1] 24


On 24 Oct 2011, at 4:14 PM, Kevin Burton wrote:

> This is very basic but I have not been able to find an answer. Basically I
> want to find the length of a string.
> 
> length("Text")
> 
> returns 1 so I know that is not right.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Kevin
> 
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