> On Mar 16, 2018, at 9:19 AM, Serguei Sokol <so...@insa-toulouse.fr> wrote:
>
> Le 16/03/2018 à 17:10, David Hugh-Jones a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I expect I'm getting something wrong, but
>>
>> cat("foo bar baz foo bar baz foo bar baz", fill = 10)
>>
>> should be broken into lines of width 10, whereas I get:
>>
>>> cat("foo bar baz foo bar baz foo bar baz", fill = 10)
>> foo bar baz foo bar baz foo bar baz
> On the other side, if I do
> > cat(strsplit("foo bar baz foo bar baz foo bar baz", " ")[[1]], fill = 10)
> I get the expected result:
>
> foo bar
> baz foo
> bar baz
> foo bar
> baz
>
> Which suggest that cat() doesn't break elements of submitted character vector
> put put enough of them to fill the requested width.
Also, see ?strwrap, which honors word boundaries
> cat(strwrap("foo bar baz foo bar baz foo bar baz", width = 10),fill=10)
foo bar
baz foo
bar baz
foo bar
baz
>
HTH,
Chuck
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