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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"))

Arguments

`x`	Character vector containing text strings to be centered.
`width`	Desired display width. Defaults to the R display width given by `getOption("width")`.

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.

Value

Vector of character strings.

Author(s)

Gregory R. Warnes greg@warnes.net

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")

gdata

Various R Programming Tools for Data Manipulation

v2.18.0

GPL-2

Authors

Gregory R. Warnes, Ben Bolker, Gregor Gorjanc, Gabor Grothendieck, Ales Korosec, Thomas Lumley, Don MacQueen, Arni Magnusson, Jim Rogers, and others

Initial release

2017-06-05