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string.bounding.box

Determine Dimensions of Strings

This determines the number of rows and maximum number of columns of each string in a vector.

string.bounding.box(string, type = c("chars", "width"))

`string`	vector of strings
`type`	character: whether to count characters or screen columns

`rows`	vector containing the number of character rows in each string
`columns`	vector containing the maximum number of character columns in each string

Charles Dupont

a <- c("this is a single line string", "This is a\nmulti-line string")
stringDims(a)

Harrell Miscellaneous

v4.5-0

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Frank E Harrell Jr <fh@fharrell.com>, with contributions from Charles Dupont and many others.

Initial release

2021-02-27