  Hi Ivan,

Now I read the other answers I also think I misunderstood the 
question... The good thing is that one of use certainly gave the right 
answer to the question ;-)

Alain

On 20-Aug-10 12:37, Ivan Calandra wrote:
>    Hi,
>
> I thought you were looking for table(), but the other answers gave you
> something really different; I might have wrongly understood your question.
>
> HTH,
> Ivan
>
> Le 8/20/2010 12:32, Alain Guillet a écrit :
>>   Hi,
>>
>> You can try sapply(levels(as.factor(dat1)),nchar)
>>
>> Alain
>>
>> On 20-Aug-10 12:01, Ron Michael wrote:
>>> Dear all, let suppose I have following vector:
>>>
>>>> dat1<- c(rep("asd", 5), rep("xyz", 12), rep("erd", 17))
>>>> dat1<- dat1[sample(1:length(dat1), length(dat1), replace=F)]
>>>> dat1
>>>    [1] "erd" "xyz" "erd" "asd" "asd" "erd" "xyz" "asd" "erd" "erd"
>>> "asd" "xyz" "erd" "asd" "xyz" "xyz" "erd" "xyz" "erd"
>>> [20] "erd" "erd" "xyz" "xyz" "erd" "erd" "erd" "erd" "xyz" "xyz"
>>> "xyz" "erd" "xyz" "erd" "erd"
>>>
>>>    Here I want to know the length of replications for each unique
>>> items viz "asd", "xyz", and "erd". Is there any R function available
>>> to directly implement that?
>>>    Thanks,
>>>
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