R: String Dimentions

stringDims {Hmisc} | R Documentation

## String Dimentions

### Description

Finds the height and width of all the string in a character vector.

### Usage

    stringDims(string)

### Arguments

`string` | vector of strings

### Details

`stringDims` finds the number of characters in width and number of lines in height for each string in the `string` argument.

### Value

`height` | a vector of the number of lines in each string.
`width` | a vector with the number of character columns in the longest line.

### Author(s)

Charles Dupont

### See Also

`string.bounding.box`, `nchar`

### Examples

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

[Package Hmisc version 4.2-0 Index]