Hi Ista,
one way could be:

ncharacters<-unlist(lapply(x,function(x)nchar(gsub(' ','',x))))
ncharacters



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From: Ista Zahn <izahn@psych.rochester.edu>
To: r-help@r-project.org
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 10:31:10 AM
Subject: [R] character count

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]

> x
[1] 32 22 12

Any ideas?

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