see the 'fill' argument for cat(). On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Francisco <franciscororol...@google.com> > wrote: >> Hello, >> I have to write a big sentence with cat() and I would like that R >> automatically adds a new line when it is needed (when the text arrives at >> the end of the window), the same as Windows Notepad does (Word Wrap). >> How could I do? > > A little bit of research wouldn't hurt: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_wrap#Algorithm > > You can split text in R with strsplit, get the length of strings with > nchar, and add up the lengths with + or sum. > > The greedy algorithm just takes as many strings until the next one > would go over the line length, and then spits those out and a new > line, and carries on. The other algorithm on Wikipedia looks much more > fun. > > Barry > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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