Split line with line breaks depending on max.width

Source: R/helpers.R

This is a helper function to insert line breaks depending on (split.cells parameter of pandoc.table) of the returning table.

splitLine(
  x,
  max.width = panderOptions("table.split.cells"),
  use.hyphening = FALSE
)

Arguments

x

string to be split. Works only with one string. Non-string arguments and multi-dimensional arguments are returned unchaged

max.width

default integer value specyfing max number of characters between line breaks

use.hyphening

(default: FALSE) if try to use hyphening when splitting large cells according to table.split.cells. Requires sylly.

Value

character string with line breaks

Examples

splitLine('foo bar', 6)
#> [1] "foo\nbar"
splitLine('foo bar', 7)
#> [1] "foo bar"
splitLine('Pandoc Package', 3, TRUE)
#> [1] "Pan-\ndoc\nPack-\nage"