NCmisc (version 1.2.0)

spc: Print a character a specified number of times.

Description

Returns 'char' X_i number of times for each element i of X. Useful for padding for alignment purposes.

Usage

spc(X, char = " ")

Value

returns vectors of strings of char, lengths X

Arguments

X

numeric vector of number of repeats

char

The character to repeat (longer will be shortened)

Author

Nicholas Cooper

See Also

rmv.spc

Examples

cat(paste(spc(9),"123\n"))
cat(paste(spc(8),"1234\n"))
spc(c(1:5),".")