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Line breaking at given number of characters for nicely plotting labels

Source: R/data_plots.R
line_break.Rd

Line breaking at given number of characters for nicely plotting labels

Usage

line_break(data, lineLength = 20, force = FALSE)

Arguments

data

string

lineLength

maximum line length

fixed

flag to force split at exactly the value given in lineLength. Default is FALSE, only splitting at spaces.

Value

character string

Examples

"Lorem ipsum... you know the routine" |> line_break()
#> [1] "Lorem ipsum... you\nknow the routine"
paste(sample(letters[1:10], 100, TRUE), collapse = "") |> line_break(force = TRUE)
#> [1] "bfheegaaihgbigiecjjc\nejbhjfgbdbegciiccfeg\nbgccehdajdebjihfdbcg\nacigaffbaadgbabdedhf\njeaifgdbjhieaca\n"