string.bounding.box {Hmisc}

Determine Dimensions of Strings

Description

This determines 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

Author(s)

Charles Dupont

See Also

nchar, stringDims

Examples

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