Hmisc (version 5.2-1)

stringDims: String Dimentions

Description

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

Usage

stringDims(string)

Value

height

a vector of the number of lines in each string.

width

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

Arguments

string

vector of strings

Author

Charles Dupont

Details

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

See Also

string.bounding.box, nchar

Examples

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