Re: [R] character count

Hi Ista, one way could be: ncharacters<-unlist(lapply(x,function(x)nchar(gsub(' ','',x ncharacters From: Ista Zahn To: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 10:31:10 AM Subject: [R] character count Dear list, I have a

Re: [R] character count

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Ista Zahn wrote: > Thanks to everyone who responded. This turns out to be amazingly easy. > To count characters including spaces: > nchar(x) > To count characters excluding spaces: > nchar(gsub(" *","",x)) The * is unnecessary. > > Thanks! > > On Fri, Dec 12, 20

Re: [R] character count

Thanks to everyone who responded. This turns out to be amazingly easy. To count characters including spaces: nchar(x) To count characters excluding spaces: nchar(gsub(" *","",x)) Thanks! On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Petr PIKAL wrote: > Hi > > > r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 12.12.

Re: [R] character count

nchar (c("convert this to 47 because it has 47 characters", "this one has 26 characters", "13 characters")) HTH Claudia -- Claudia Beleites Dipartimento dei Materiali e delle Risorse Naturali Università degli Studi di Trieste Via Alfonso Valerio 6/a I-34127 Trieste phone: +39 (0 40) 5 58-34 47

[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 h