nchar Function in R (Example)
The R code on this page illustrates how to count the length of a character string with the nchar() function in the R programming language.
Example Data
my_char <- "This is an example string" # Create example string |
Example: Application of nchar Function
nchar(my_char) # Return length of string # 25 |
The RStudio console returns the value 25. This means that our example string consists of 25 characters.
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