You can't try this:

sapply(names(reportDF), toString, width = 10)

abbreviate(names(reportDF))

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Felipe Carrillo
<mazatlanmexico@yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hi:
> Using this dataframe with quite long column headers, how can I wrap the
> text so that the columns are narrower. I was trying to use strwrap without
> success. Thanks
>
> reportDF <- structure(list(IDDate = c("3/12/2010", "3/13/2010",
> "3/14/2010",
> "3/15/2010"), FirstRunoftheYear = c("33 (119 ? 119)", "n (0 ? 0)", "893
> (110 ?
> 146)",
> "140 (111 ? 150)"), SecondRunoftheYear = c("33 (71 ? 71)", "n (0 ? 0)",
> "337 (67 ? 74)", "140 (68 ? 84)"), ThirdRunoftheYear = c("890 (32 ? 47)",
> "n (0 ? 0)", "10,602 (32 ? 52)", "2,635 (34 ? 66)"), FourthRunoftheYear =
> c("0 (
> ? )",
> "n (0 ? 0)", "0 ( ? )", "0 ( ? )"), LastRunoftheYear = c("0 ( ? )", "n (0 ?
> 0)",
> "0 ( ? )", "0 ( ? )")), .Names = c("IDDate", "First Run of the Year",
> "Second
> Run of the Year",
> "Third Run of the Year", "Fourth Run of the Year", "Last Run of the Year"),
> row.names = c(NA, 4L), class = "data.frame")
>
>
>
> Felipe D. Carrillo
> Supervisory Fishery Biologist
> Department of the Interior
> US Fish & Wildlife Service
> California, USA
>
>
>
>
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