Shorten character strings
This function shortens strings that are longer than max.length
chars, without cropping words.
shorten_string(s, max.length = NULL, abbr = "...")
s |
A string. |
max.length |
Maximum length of chars for the string. |
abbr |
String that will be used as suffix, if |
If the string length defined in max.length happens to be inside
a word, this word is removed from the returned string (see 'Examples'), so
the returned string has a maximum length of max.length, but
might be shorter.
A shortened string.
s <- "This can be considered as very long string!" # string is shorter than max.length, so returned as is shorten_string(s, 60) # string is shortened to as many words that result in # a string of maximum 20 chars shorten_string(s, 20) # string including "considered" is exactly of length 22 chars shorten_string(s, 22)
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