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align

Alignment helper

Description

Facilitates easy alignment of strings within a character vector. Designed to help implementers of formatters for custom data types.

Usage

align(x, width = NULL, align = c("left", "right"), space = " ")

Arguments

x

A character vector
width

The width that each string is padded to. If NULL, the maximum display width of the character vector is used (see get_max_extent()).
align

How should strings be aligned? If align = left then padding appears on the right, and vice versa.
space

What character should be used for the padding?

Examples

align(c("abc", "de"), align = "left")
align(c("abc", "de"), align = "right")
pillar

Coloured Formatting for Columns

v1.6.0
MIT + file LICENSE
Authors
Kirill Müller [aut, cre], Hadley Wickham [aut], RStudio [cph]
Initial release

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