Check if Object is of the Character Data type in R Programming – is.character() Function Last Updated : 03 Jun, 2020 Improve Improve Like Article Like Save Share Report 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: # 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: # 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 Like Article Suggest improvement Previous Comma separator for numbers in R Next Extract word from a String at specified position in R Programming - word() Function Share your thoughts in the comments Add Your Comment Please Login to comment...