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?
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