strwrap {stringx}

Word-Wrap Text

Description

Splits each string into words which are then arranged to form text lines of mo more than a given width.

Usage

strwrap(
  x,
  width = 0.9 * getOption("width"),
  indent = 0,
  exdent = 0,
  prefix = "",
  simplify = TRUE,
  initial = prefix,
  locale = NULL
)

Arguments

x

character vector whose elements are to be word-wrapped

width

single integer; maximal total width of the code points per line (as determined by stri_width)

indent

single integer; first line indentation size

exdent

single integer; consequent lines indentation size

prefix

single string; prefix for each line except the first

simplify

see Value

initial

single string; prefix for the first line

locale

NULL or "" for the default locale (see stri_locale_get) or a single string with a locale identifier, see stri_locale_list

Details

Might be useful when displaying strings using a monospaced font.

Value

If simplify is FALSE, a list of length(x) numeric vectors is returned.

Otherwise, the function yields a character vector (in UTF-8). Note that the length of the output may be different than that of the input.

Due to this, no attributes are preserved.

Differences from Base R

Replacement for base strwrap implemented with stri_wrap.

• missing values not propagated [fixed here]

• some emojis, combining characters and modifiers (e.g., skin tones) are not recognised properly [fixed here]

• what is considered a word does not depend on locale [fixed here - using ICU's word break iterators]

• multiple whitespaces between words are not preserved except after a dot, question mark, or exclamation mark, which leads to two spaces inserted [changed here – any sequence of whitespaces considered word boundaries is converted to a single space]

• a greedy word wrap algorithm is used, which may lead to high raggedness [fixed here – using the Knuth-Plass method]

Author(s)

Marek Gagolewski

References

D.E. Knuth, M.F. Plass, Breaking paragraphs into lines, Software: Practice and Experience 11(11), 1981, pp. 1119–1184.

See Also

The official online manual of stringx at https://stringx.gagolewski.com/

Related function(s): sprintf, trimws, nchar

Examples

strwrap(paste0(
    strrep("az ", 20),
    strrep("\u0105\u20AC ", 20),
    strrep("\U0001F643 ", 20),
    strrep("\U0001F926\U0000200D\U00002642\U0000FE0F ", 20)
), width=60)