strTrim: strTrim

In demuellae/muRtools: Mueller's R tools

strTrim

Description

trim a character vector to have a desired length by taking the beginning of the string and the end of the string

Usage

strTrim(
  ss,
  len.out = 50,
  trim.str = "...",
  len.pref = ceiling((len.out - nchar(trim.str))/2),
  len.suf = len.out - len.pref - nchar(trim.str)
)

Arguments

ss	character vector
len.out	target output length to trim to
trim.str	string to place in between prefix and suffix
len.pref	length of the prefix to be used from the original string
len.suf	length of the suffix to be used from the original string

Value

character vector in which each element has length<=len.out

Author(s)

Fabian Mueller

demuellae/muRtools documentation built on Sept. 8, 2023, 4:32 p.m.