[R] Width of a text

[Ben Tupper]

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.christofer using 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.
> 
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Ben Tupper
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