fixWidthStr: Shorten strings to strings with a fix width of characters

In ribiosUtils: Utilities from and Interface to the Bioinfo-C (BIOS) Library

Description

Shorten strings to strings with a fix width of characters

Usage

fixWidthStr(str, nchar = 8, align = c("left", "right"))

Arguments

str	A vector of strings
nchar	The fixed with
align	Character, how to align Strings with more or fewer characters than nchar are either shortened or filled (with spaces)

Value

A vector of strings with fixed widths

Note

NA will be converted to characters and the same fixed width will be applied. The behavior is different from shortenStr, where NA is kept as it is.

See Also

shortenStr

Examples

inputStrs <- c("abc", "abcd", "abcde", "abcdefg", "NA", NA) 
outputStrs <- fixWidthStr(inputStrs, nchar=4)
stopifnot(all(nchar(outputStrs)==4))

ribiosUtils documentation built on March 13, 2020, 2:54 a.m.