repChar {sfsmisc} | R Documentation |
Simple constructors of a constant character string from one character, notably a “blank” string of given string length.
M.M. is now ‘mentally deprecating’ bl.string
in
favor of using repChar()
in all cases.
repChar(char, no) bl.string(no)
char |
single character (or arbitrary string). |
no |
non-negative integer. |
One string, i.e., character(1)
), for bl.string
a
blank string, fulfilling n == nchar(bl.string(n))
.
Martin Maechler, early 1990's (for bl.string
).
r <- sapply(0:8, function(n) ccat(repChar(" ",n), n)) cbind(r) repChar("-", 4) repChar("_", 6) ## it may make sense to a string of more than one character: repChar("-=- ", 6) ## show the very simple function definitions: repChar bl.string