Character Vectors

Description

Create or test for objects of type "character".

Usage

character(length = 0)
as.character(x)
is.character(x)

Value

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 be of character type.

is.character returns TRUE or FALSE depending on whether its argument is of character type or not.