R: Determine Dimensions of Strings

string.bounding.box {Hmisc} | R Documentation

## Determine Dimensions of Strings

### Description

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

### Usage

    string.bounding.box(string, type = c("chars", "width"))

### Arguments

`string` | vector of strings
`type` | character: whether to count characters or screen columns

### Value

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

### Author(s)

Charles Dupont

### See Also

`nchar`, `stringDims`

### Examples

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

[Package Hmisc version 4.3-0 Index]