| character {base} | R Documentation |
Create or test for objects of type "character".
character(length = 0) as.character(x, ...) is.character(x)
length |
desired length. |
x |
object to be coerced or tested. |
... |
further arguments passed to or from other methods. |
character creates a character vector of the specified length.
The elements of the vector are all equal to "".
as.character attempts to coerce its argument to character type.
is.character returns TRUE or FALSE depending on
whether its argument is of character type or not.
as.character truncates components of language objects to 500
characters (was about 70 before 1.3.1).
deparse, which is normally preferable to
as.character for language objects.
form <- y ~ a + b + c as.character(form) ## length 3 deparse(form) ## like the input