xW {lessR}

Text Processing: Wrap Words to Create New Lines From a Specified Line

Description

Split a larger line into multiple lines by wrapping words with inserted line feeds. Primarily for internal use in text processing of knitr output. Not usually referenced by the user.

Usage

xW(x, w=90, indent=5) 

Arguments

x

The character string to split into separate lines.

w

Maximum width of each line.

indent

Amount of spaces to indent lines after the first line.

Details

Input is a sentence. Output is the sentence word wrapped into multiple lines, each line up to the maximum width.

Author(s)

David W. Gerbing (Portland State University; [e-mail])

Examples

xW("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back.", w=30)