On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Barry Rowlingson
<b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:42 PM, R. Michael Weylandt
> <michael.weyla...@gmail.com> <michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you mean to do 'nchar(x)' to show that \" was one character?
> 'length' gives the number of elements in a vector, which in this case
> is also one.
>
> > x=c("\"", '\'')
> > length(x)
> [1] 2
> > nchar(x)
> [1] 1 1
D'oh! Fair enough,
MW
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