[R] character count

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] x

Re: [R] character count

nchar (c(convert this to 47 because it has 47 characters, this one has 26 characters, 13 characters)) HTH Claudia -- Claudia Beleites Dipartimento dei Materiali e delle Risorse Naturali Università degli Studi di Trieste Via Alfonso Valerio 6/a I-34127 Trieste phone: +39 (0 40) 5 58-34 47

Re: [R] 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.pi...@precheza.cz wrote: Hi r-help-boun...@r-project.org

Re: [R] character count

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Ista Zahn iz...@psych.rochester.edu wrote: 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)) The * is unnecessary. Thanks! On

Re: [R] character count

Hi Ista, one way could be: ncharacters-unlist(lapply(x,function(x)nchar(gsub(' ','',x ncharacters From: Ista Zahn iz...@psych.rochester.edu To: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 10:31:10 AM Subject: [R] character count Dear list, I have