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# Line breaking at given number of characters for nicely plotting labels

Source: `R/data_plots.R`
`line_break.Rd`

Line breaking at given number of characters for nicely plotting labels

## Usage

    line_break(data, lineLength = 20, force = FALSE)

## Arguments

data

  string

lineLength

  maximum line length

fixed

  flag to force split at exactly the value given in lineLength. Default is FALSE, only splitting at spaces.

## Value

character string

## Examples

    "Lorem ipsum... you know the routine" |> line_break()
    #> [1] "Lorem ipsum... you\nknow the routine"
    paste(sample(letters[1:10], 100, TRUE), collapse = "") |> line_break(force = TRUE)
    #> [1] "gccehdajdebjihfdbcgb\ncigaffbaadgbabdedhfc\neaifgdbjhieacaaggaja\ndfeediafjfibbfjihdhe\niebfajgfhcgbidc\n"