Alignment helper — align • pillar

Facilitates easy alignment of strings within a character vector. Designed to help implementers of formatters for custom data types.

align(x, width = NULL, align = c("left", "right"), space = " ")

Arguments

x: A character vector
width: The width that each string is padded to. If NULL, the maximum display width of the character vector is used (see get_max_extent()).
align: How should strings be aligned? If align = left then padding appears on the right, and vice versa.
space: What character should be used for the padding?

align(c("abc", "de"), align = "left")
#> [1] "abc" "de "
align(c("abc", "de"), align = "right")
#> [1] "abc" " de"