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stringWidth {grid} | R Documentation

## Create a Unit Describing the Width and Height of a String or Math Expression

### Description

These functions create a unit object describing the width or height of a string.

### Usage

    stringWidth(string)
    stringHeight(string)
    stringAscent(string)
    stringDescent(string)

### Arguments

`string` | A character vector or a language object (as used for ‘plotmath’ calls.

### Value

A `unit` object.

### Author(s)

Paul Murrell

### See Also

`unit` and `grobWidth`

`strwidth` in the graphics package for more details of the typographic concepts behind the computations.

[Package grid version 2.15.1 Index]