R: Center Text Strings

centerText {gdata} | R Documentation

## 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

### See Also

`strwrap`

### 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")

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