unit.length {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)

[Package grid version 2.3.1 Index]