equalBins function

Multicolumn Formating

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.

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.

Returns

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)