This function shortens strings that are longer than max.length
chars.
shorten_string(s, max.length = NULL, abbr = "...")
s | A string. |
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max.length | Maximum length of chars for the string. |
abbr | String that will be used as suffix, if |
A shortened string.
s <- "This can be considered as very long string!" # string is shorter than max.length, so returned as is shorten_string(s, 60)#> [1] "This can be considered as very long string!"# string is shortened to as many words that result in # a string of maximum 20 chars shorten_string(s, 20)#> [1] "This can be..."# string including "considered" is exactly of length 22 chars shorten_string(s, 22)#> [1] "This can be considered..."