I would propose to add " See also: `nchar' for counting the number of character in character vectors. " to the helpfile of length(), because it is rather difficult to find nchar() if one has only search terms as "length", "len", "strlen" in mind.
Sincerly Wolfram Fischer ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel