How to find maximum string length by column in data frame
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We can use nchar
max(nchar(clmn))
For finding the maximum character length for each column
lapply(df1, function(x) max(nchar(x)))
If we need to filter the columns that have maximum string length greater than 1
df1[sapply(df1, function(x) max(nchar(x)))>1]
Or
Filter(function(x) max(nchar(x)) >1, df1)
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Kalin Stoyanov
Updated on June 16, 2022Comments
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Kalin Stoyanov almost 2 years
My question is similar to this. But for strings.
So I have a dataframe, each column contains strings of different length. So, how I can find the maximum string length per column?
Then, how to select the columns, where length is > 1, by sapply or similar.
A typical column of the dataframe looks like this:
clmn=c("XDX", "GUV", "FQ", "ACUE", "HIT", "AYX", "NFD", "AHBW", "GKQ", "PYF")
Thanks