[R] measure displayed size of a character string

[Paul Murrell]

hi

>Is there a way to measure the length of a character string as
>text() or mtext() would display it?  Not in characters, but in
>inches or user coordinates.


hopefully strwidth() and strheight() will do what you want

paul


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