The function nchar
tells you how many characters long a character
vector is.
nchar("Hello")
#> [1] 5
Write a line of code that assigns to the object new_names
the state abbreviation when the state name is longer than 8 characters and the original name when this is not the case. The state names are those from the murders dataset.
NOTE
Do not forget to first load the data as in the previous exercises!
You will need to use the ifelse
function from chapter 3.1 Conditional expressions.
The ifelse
function is not the same as if(){}
else{}
statements.