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xW: Text Processing: Wrap Words to Create New Lines From a Specified Line

Description

Split a larger line into mulitple lines by wrapping words with inserted line feeds. Primarily for internal use in text processing of knitr output. Not usually referenced by the user.

Usage

xW(x, w=90, indent=5)

Arguments

x
The character string to split into separate lines.
w
Maximum width of each line.
indent
Amount of spaces to indent lines after the first line.

Details

Input is a sentence. Output is the sentence word wrapped into multiple lines, each line up to the maximum width.

Examples

Run this code
xW("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back.", w=30)

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