"" is a character vector with one element in it.
?nchar
?length
 

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From: Worik R <wor...@gmail.com>
To:r-help <r-help@r-project.org>
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

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