[R] Truncation of text strings

[Roger Bivand]

On Wed, 21 May 2003, Göran Broström wrote:

> How do I print text strings to a given length, ie, if they are too long
> I want them truncated (from the end)?
> 
> > format.char("123", width = 1)

?substr

substr("123", 1, 1)

> 
> does not do what I want, ie, "1".
> 
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