equalBins {Hmisc}

Multicolumn Formating

Description

Expands the width either supercolumns or the subcolumns so that the the sum of the supercolumn widths is the same as the sum of the subcolumn widths.

Usage

equalBins(widths, subwidths)

Arguments

widths

widths of the supercolumns.

subwidths

list of widths of the subcolumns for each supercolumn.

Details

This determins the correct subwidths of each of various columns in a table for printing. The correct width of the multicolumns is deterimed by summing the widths of it subcolumns.

Value

widths of the the columns for a table.

Author(s)

Charles Dupont

See Also

nchar, stringDims

Examples

mcols <- c("Group 1", "Group 2")
mwidth <- nchar(mcols, type="width")
spancols <- c(3,3)
ccols <- c("a", "deer", "ad", "cat", "help", "bob")
cwidth <- nchar(ccols, type="width")

subwidths <- partition.vector(cwidth, spancols)

equalBins(mwidth, subwidths)