blockMessage: Messages in 8 by 8 block letters

In BlockMessage: Creates strings that show a text message in 8 by 8 block letters

Description

Creates strings that show a text message in 8 by 8 block letters

Usage

blockMessage(message, symbols = c("X"," "), font = NULL, font_names = NULL, 
  width = 7, asData = 0, portrait=TRUE, rotate=0, repeats=1)

Arguments

message	string containing the text message
symbols	The symbols that make up the dark and light spaces in the block letters
font	a matrix describing each letter. The shape of each letter is defined by the eight entries in each row. Each entry corresponds to a column. Each two byte entry describes the dark and light spaces within the column. The first byte describes the top 4 positions and the second byte describes the bottom 4 positions.
font_names	A vector containing the name for each row in the font matrix.
width	The number of columns (maximum=8) to use in each letter
asData	Indicates whether to return a matrix of dark and light symbols (asData=FALSE) or to return a strings of characters that can be printed in either portrait or landscape format (asData=TRUE)
portrait	Indicates whether the strings should be in portrait (TRUE) or landscape (FALSE) mode
rotate	0 is the default orientation, 180 rotates the message 180 degrees
repeats	The number of times each row and column of symbols is repeated within each letter

Details

For more information on the creation of the fonts see http://roznerd.blogspot.com/

Author(s)

Elliot Noma, Aliona Manvae

References

http://roznerd.blogspot.com/

Examples

  cat(paste(blockMessage("Finishing 15:01:45"), collapse="\n"), "\n")
  cat("\n", paste(paste(rep(" ", 20), collapse=""), 
      blockMessage("Finishing 15:01:45", portrait=FALSE, repeats=3, rotate=180, width=6),
  	  collapse="\n"), "\n")
  cat(paste(c(blockMessage("Finishing"),"\n",blockMessage("15:01:45")), collapse="\n"), "\n")

BlockMessage documentation built on May 2, 2019, 3:31 p.m.