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        nchar(x)

   DDeessccrriippttiioonn::

        `nchar' takes a character vector as an argument and
        returns a vector whose elements contain the number of
        characters in the corresponding element of `x'.  It
        only accepts character vectors as arguments if you want
        to operate on other objects passing them through
        `deparse' first will be required.

   SSeeee AAllssoo::

        `strwidth' giving width of strings for plotting;
        `paste', `substr', `strsplit'

   EExxaammpplleess::

        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

