stringDims function

String Dimentions

Finds the height and width of all the string in a character vector.

stringDims(string)

Arguments

• string: vector of strings

Details

stringDims finds the number of characters in width and number of lines in height for each string in the string argument.

Returns

• height: a vector of the number of lines in each string.

• width: a vector with the number of character columns in the longest line.

Author(s)

Charles Dupont

See Also

string.bounding.box, nchar

Examples

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