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Chunk a text string into k strings.
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chunk_text.R
chunk_text <- function(txt, k) {
n <- nchar(txt)
q <- n %/% k
r <- n %% k
unlist(lapply(seq.int(1, k), function(i) {
substr(txt, start = (i - 1)*q + min(i - 1, r) + 1, stop = i * q + min(i, r))
}), recursive = FALSE)
}
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