Format strings for pretty output — surround • mosaic

Format strings for pretty output

surround(x, pre = " ", post = " ", width = 8, ...)

Arguments

x: a vector
pre: text to prepend onto string
post: text to postpend onto string
width: desired width of string
...: additional arguments passed to format()

Value

a vector of strings padded to the desired width

Examples

surround(rbinom(10,20,.5), " ", " ", width=4)
#>  [1] "  5 " " 14 " " 10 " "  7 " "  9 " " 11 " "  8 " "  9 " " 13 " " 12 "
surround(rnorm(10), " ", " ", width=8, digits = 2, nsmall = 2)
#>  [1] " -0.316 " " -0.448 " " -0.011 " "  0.011 " "  1.419 " "  1.189 "
#>  [7] "  0.600 " " -0.853 " " -0.789 " " -0.824 "