Or :

 nchar(gsub("[[:space:]]", "", x))

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Petr PIKAL <petr.pikal@precheza.cz> wrote:

> Hi
>
>
> r-help-bounces@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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