string.bounding.box {Hmisc}R Documentation

Determine Diamentions of Strings

Description

This determins the number of rows and maximum number of columns of each string in a vector.

Usage

string.bounding.box(string)

Arguments

string vector of strings

Value

rows vector containing the number of character rows in each string.
columns vector containing the maximum number of character columns in each string.

Note

compatable with Splus string.bounding.box

Author(s)

Charles Dupont

See Also

nchar, stringDims

Examples

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

[Package Hmisc version 3.3-1 Index]