\Header{nchar}{Count the Number of Characters}
\keyword{character}{nchar}
\begin{Description}\relax
\code{nchar} takes a character vector as an argument and
returns a vector whose elements contain the number of characters in
the corresponding element of \code{x}.
It only accepts character vectors as arguments if you want to operate
on other objects passing them through \code{deparse} first will be required.\end{Description}
\begin{Usage}
\begin{verbatim}nchar(x)\end{verbatim}
\end{Usage}
\begin{SeeAlso}\relax
\code{\Link{strwidth}} giving width of strings for plotting;
\code{\Link{paste}}, \code{\Link{substr}}, \code{\Link{strsplit}}\end{SeeAlso}
\begin{Examples}
\begin{ExampleCode}
x<-c("asfef","qwerty","yuiop[","b","stuff.blah.yech")
nchar(x)
# 5  6  6  1 15

nchar(deparse(mean))
# 23  1 16 45 11 64  2 17 50 43  2 17  1
\end{ExampleCode}
\end{Examples}

