[R] Typographical error in the documentation of function strwidth?

peter dalgaard
Wed, 16 Mar 2016 22:22:46 -0000

I don't think so. I'll give you that it should either be the (number of
lines - 1)*spacing or (number of linefeeds)*spacing, but it's correct to
count the height of "M" only on the top line.

-pd

It is correct as written

> On 16 Mar 2016, at 22:39 , ALBERTO VIEIRA FERREIRA MONTEIRO <albmont at
centroin.com.br> wrote:
>
> There might be a minor typographical error in the documentation of the
function strwidth, namely, from
>
> ?strwidth
>
> we get:
>
> "Note that the ?height? of a string is determined only by the number
of linefeeds ("\n") it contains: it is the (number of linefeeds - 1)
times the line spacing plus the height of "M" in the selected font.
(...)"
>
> I think the correct phrasing should be:
>
> "Note that the ?height? of a string is determined only by the number
of linefeeds ("\n") it contains: it is the (number of linefeeds) times
the line spacing plus the (number of linefeeds + 1) times the height of
"M" in the selected font. (...)"
>
> Alberto Monteiro
>
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