"" is a character vector with one element in it. ?nchar ?length
>>> From: Worik R <[email protected]> To:r-help <[email protected]> Date: 11/Nov/2011 1:21p Subject: [R] Why does length("") == 1? It seems obvious to me that the empty string "" is length 0. cheers Worik [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
