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Check if Object is of the Character Data type in R Programming - is.character() Function

Last Updated : 03 Jun, 2020
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is.character() Function in R Language is used to check if the object is of the form of a string/character or not. It will return true if any element of the object is of the character data type.
Syntax: is.character(Object) Parameter: Object: It could be an array, list, vector, etc.
Example 1: Python3 1==
# R Program to illustrate 
# the use of is.character function

# Creating a vector of mixed datatype
x1 <- c("Hello", "Geeks", 100)

# Creating a vector of Numeric datatype
x2 <- c(10, 20, 30)

# Calling is.character() function
is.character(x1)
is.character(x2)
Output:
[1] TRUE
[1] FALSE
Example 2: Python3 1==
# R Program to illustrate 
# the use of is.character function

# Create the vectors with different length 
vector1 <- c(1, 2, 3) 
vector2 <- c("GFG", "Geeks", "Hello") 
  
# taking this vector as input 
result <- array(c(vector1, vector2), dim = c(3, 3, 2)) 

# Calling is.character() function
is.character(result)
Output:
[1] TRUE

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