gdata (version 3.0.1)

centerText: Center Text Strings

Description

Function to center text strings for display on the text console by prepending the necessary number of spaces to each element.

Usage

centerText(x, width = getOption("width"))

Value

Vector of character strings.

Arguments

x

Character vector containing text strings to be centered.

width

Desired display width. Defaults to the R display width given by getOption("width").

Author

Gregory R. Warnes

Details

Each element will be centered individually by prepending the necessary number of spaces to center the text in the specified display width assuming a fixed width font.

See Also

strwrap

Examples

cat(centerText("One Line Test"), "\n\n")

mText <-c("This", "is an example",
          " of a multiline text    ",
          "with ",
          "          leading",
          " and trailing         ",
          "spaces.")
cat("\n", centerText(mText), "\n", sep="\n")