Questions tagged [nchar]

I have a dataframe with 7 variables. Some variables have more characters then they are supposed to have. To find the lines containing too many characters for one value I use this: df <- df[-c(which(nchar(as.character(df$u)) > 5)), ] So every line…

Object data is a dataframe that contain multiple columns and v is the column that contains icd10 code. The aim is to store a logical value that will return TRUE if satisfy those conditions. indication <- nchar(gsub("[^[:alpha:]]", "", data[[v]])) >…