Hi, Does strwidth() do the trick?
https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/graphics/versions/3.5.1/topics/strwidth <https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/graphics/versions/3.5.1/topics/strwidth> Ben > On Dec 12, 2018, at 6:55 AM, Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > In HTML there is a way to measure the width of a Text before printing it on > screen as in https://www.w3schools.com/tags/canvas_measuretext.asp > > In R we have nchar() function which just measures the number of letters in > a Text, but I wonder if we can measure the width of text as well. > > I have a shiny app where I need to print a text in an Area onto the screen > which has a specific width, so some the texts are not showing within that > area (overflowing), where some are though all of them have the equal number > of letters. > > Thanks for any input. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. Ben Tupper Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences 60 Bigelow Drive, P.O. Box 380 East Boothbay, Maine 04544 http://www.bigelow.org Ecological Forecasting: https://eco.bigelow.org/ [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
