Actually, I do want to keep those nonprintable characters in the string. In retrospect, I would have done well to write that I want to output the string
my_formatted_string <- "\033[30m\033[1mThis is some dummy text\033[22m\033[39m: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum."
to the console in such a manner the column spacing comes out to be the same as with this string
my_unformatted_string <- "This is some dummy text: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum."
when I output it to the console as follows:
cat(str_wrap(my_unformatted_string, width=78))
Moreover, I want to achieve this in a manner that is in keeping with tidyverse best practices.
Apologies for the ambiguity in my original post.
Thanks in Advance!