string.bounding.box {Hmisc} | R Documentation |
This determins the number of rows and maximum number of columns of each string in a vector.
string.bounding.box(string, type = c("chars", "width"))
string |
character vector, or a vector to be coerced to a character vector |
type |
character string: How the length of the string should be measured. See Details. |
The length of a string can be measured in one of two ways. See
nchar
Details section for more info.
`chars' The number of human readable characters.
`width' The number of columns used to print the string.
rows |
vector containing the number of character rows in each string. |
columns |
vector containing the maximum number of characters or character columns in each string. |
compatable with Splus string.bounding.box
Charles Dupont
a <- c("this is a single line string", "This is a\nmulty line string") stringDims(a)