From: "Paul Murrell" <pm254@medschl.cam.ac.uk>
To: <twestley@buffalo.veridian.com>, "R-Help" <r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: [R] measure displayed size of a character string
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 08:52:11 +0100
hi
>Is there a way to measure the length of a character string as
>text() or mtext() would display it? Not in characters, but in
>inches or user coordinates.
hopefully strwidth() and strheight() will do what you want
paul
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