[R] Word Wrap

[Florent D.]

see the 'fill' argument for cat().

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Barry Rowlingson
<b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Francisco <franciscororolaio at google.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I have to write a big sentence with cat() and I would like that R
>> automatically adds a new line when it is needed (when the text arrives at
>> the end of the window), the same as Windows Notepad does (Word Wrap).
>> How could I do?
>
> A little bit of research wouldn't hurt:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_wrap#Algorithm
>
> You can split text in R with strsplit, get the length of strings with
> nchar, and add up the lengths with + or sum.
>
>  The greedy algorithm just takes as many strings until the next one
> would go over the line length, and then spits those out and a new
> line, and carries on. The other algorithm on Wikipedia looks much more
> fun.
>
> Barry
>
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