[R] nchar on data.frames

[David L. Tabb]

I don't understand why nchar() gives different string lengths for vectors
in a list than it does for vectors in a dataframe.  Here's a snippet of
code:

> temp <- list(text=c("thug","jimbob","apple","thug"),numbers=1:4)
> nchar(temp$text)
[1] 4 6 5 4
> temp <- data.frame(temp)
> nchar(temp$text)
[1] 1 1 1 1

Could someone explain how I can get the former behavior for a text vector
in a data.frame?

Thanks!  RPM reports I'm using R-base-1.2.1-2.

Dave

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