Set whitespace in character

When printing whitespace, some applications will ignore or remove the whitespace, for example it will simplify " " to " ". In this instance, it will be useful to replace the double whitespace with a space preceding by "symbol" (or the other way round conditionally).

set_whitespace(x, symbol = " ")

Arguments

x	vector of character strings to set the whitespace for
symbol	character string to be used as the whitespace. In general, for HTML output (default), use " " and for LaTeX, use "\\\\quad" (the double escape is required)

Examples

x <- c("  a", "b  ", "  c  ")
set_whitespace(x)
#> [1] "&emsp; a"        "b&emsp; "        "&emsp; c&emsp; "