I have a feeling that everything involving strings in R is a major headache.<p>Case in point:<p>- stringsAsFactors is True by default, leading to all kinds of weird silent behaviors<p>- length(&#x27;string&#x27;) being 1, since that&#x27;s silently a vector of length 1 (~ length(c(&#x27;string&#x27;)) ). Have to use nchar() or str_length()<p>But, analyzing strings is pretty cool - stringdist() or levenshteinDist() are great!