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 <petr.pikal at precheza.cz> wrote:

Hi


r-help-bounces at 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?