unit.length               package:grid               R Documentation

Length of a Unit Object

Description:

     The length of a unit object is defined as the number of unit
     values in the unit object.

     This function has been deprecated in favour of a unit method for
     the generic 'length' function.

Usage:

     unit.length(unit)

Arguments:

    unit: A unit object.

Value:

     An integer value.

Author(s):

     Paul Murrell

See Also:

     'unit'

Examples:

     length(unit(1:3, "npc"))
     length(unit(1:3, "npc") + unit(1, "inches"))
     length(max(unit(1:3, "npc") + unit(1, "inches")))
     length(max(unit(1:3, "npc") + unit(1, "strwidth", "a"))*4)
     length(unit(1:3, "npc") + unit(1, "strwidth", "a")*4)

