Character Count in addition to Word Count reported in R Markdown output

[jrennstich]

The reported Word Count (in the R Markdown tab), e.g.,

9215 words in text body
2884 words in reference section

is extremely useful. Some journals require a character count, however. Running wordcountaddin::text_stats() does of course produce that, but adds data that shouldn't be included (compared to the output reported in the RMarkdown tab). Would it be possible to add to the respective code that produces that word cout output to include the character counts for "text body" and "reference section"?

Either as

9215 words / 56272  characters in text body
2884 words / 2433 characters in reference section

or

9215 words in text body
2884 words in reference section
56272 characters in text body
2433 characters in reference section

or some alternative form.

[crsh]

Hi there, this has been a while, but I have now added a simple version of a character counting filter. I may additionally add this functionality to the word count filter as per your suggestions.