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- nchar(x)
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:
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- nchar takes a character vector as an argument and
- returns a vector whose elements contain the number of
- characters in the corresponding element of x. It only
- accepts character vectors as arguments if you want to
- operate on other objects passing them through deparse
- first will be required.
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- _S_e_e _A_l_s_o:
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- paste, substr, strsplit
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- _E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:
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- x<-c("asfef","qwerty","yuiop[","b","stuff.blah.yech")
- nchar(x)
- # 5 6 6 1 15
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- nchar(deparse(mean))
- # 23 1 16 45 11 64 2 17 50 43 2 17 1
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