centerText: Center Text Strings
In gdata: Various R Programming Tools for Data Manipulation

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) See Also Examples

Function to center text strings for display on the text console by prepending the necessary number of spaces to each element.

1	centerText(x, width = getOption("width"))

`x`	Character vector containing text strings to be centered.
`width`	Desired display width. Defaults to the R display width given by `getOption("width")`.

Each element will be centered individually by prepending the necessary number of spaces to center the text in the specified display width assuming a fixed width font.

Vector of character strings.

Gregory R. Warnes greg@warnes.net

strwrap

cat(centerText("One Line Test"), "\n\n")

mText <-c("This", "is an example",
          " of a multiline text    ",
          "with ",
          "          leading",
          " and trailing         ",
          "spaces.")
cat("\n", centerText(mText), "\n", sep="\n")