string.bounding.box {Hmisc} | R Documentation |
Determine Diamentions of Strings
Description
This determins the number of rows and maximum number of columns of each string in a vector.
Usage
string.bounding.box(string, type = c("chars", "width"))
Arguments
string |
vector of strings |
type |
character: whether to count characters or screen columns |
Value
rows |
vector containing the number of character rows in each string. |
columns |
vector containing the maximum number of character columns in each string. |
Note
compatable with Splus string.bounding.box
Author(s)
Charles Dupont
See Also
Examples
a <- c("this is a single line string", "This is a\nmulty line string")
stringDims(a)
[Package Hmisc version 3.14-6 Index]