Hi
r-help-boun...@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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