align

Facilitates easy alignment of strings within a character vector. Designed to
help implementers of formatters for custom data types.

Provides 'pillar' and 'colonnade' generics designed
for formatting columns of data using the full range of colours
provided by modern terminals.

Kirill M<c3><bc>ller

pillar

Coloured Formatting for Columns

Kirill Müller

Hadley Wickham

RStudio 

align function

<dl><dt>x</dt>
<dd>A character vector</dd>
<dt>width</dt>
<dd>The width that each string is padded to. If <code>NULL</code>, the maximum
display width of the character vector is used (see <code>get_max_extent()</code>).</dd>
<dt>align</dt>
<dd>How should strings be aligned? If <code>align = left</code> then padding
appears on the <code>right</code>, and vice versa.</dd>
<dt>space</dt>
<dd>What character should be used for the padding?</dd></dl>

Arguments

Alignment helper — align

<dl>

<dt>x</dt>
<dd>A character vector</dd>


<dt>width</dt>
<dd>The width that each string is padded to. If <code>NULL</code>, the maximum
display width of the character vector is used (see <code>get_max_extent()</code>).</dd>


<dt>align</dt>
<dd>How should strings be aligned? If <code>align = left</code> then padding
appears on the <code>right</code>, and vice versa.</dd>


<dt>space</dt>
<dd>What character should be used for the padding?</dd>

</dl>

align: Alignment helper

Description

Usage

Arguments

Examples