diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index fac9bb5..caa653b 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 export(addAlleles)
 export(admix1)
+export(blanks)
 export(calculatePopLogml)
 export(colon)
 export(computeAllFreqs2)
diff --git a/R/blanks.R b/R/blanks.R
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bd1409c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/R/blanks.R
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#' @title Blanks
+#' @description Create character vector of blanks
+#' @details This function emulates the behavior of a homonimous function from Matlab
+#' @param n length of vector
+#' @return Vector of n blanks
+#' @author Waldir Leoncio
+#' @export
+blanks <- function(n) {
+	if (n < 0) {
+		warning("Negative n passed. Treating as n = 0")
+		n <- 0
+	}
+	paste(rep(" ", n), collapse="")
+}
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diff --git a/man/blanks.Rd b/man/blanks.Rd
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..87471f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/blanks.Rd
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+% Please edit documentation in R/blanks.R
+\name{blanks}
+\alias{blanks}
+\title{Blanks}
+\usage{
+blanks(n)
+}
+\arguments{
+\item{n}{length of vector}
+}
+\value{
+Vector of n blanks
+}
+\description{
+Create character vector of blanks
+}
+\details{
+This function emulates the behavior of a homonimous function from Matlab
+}
+\author{
+Waldir Leoncio
+}
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-convertedBaseFunctions.R b/tests/testthat/test-convertedBaseFunctions.R
index ca945c3..66c2ac9 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-convertedBaseFunctions.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-convertedBaseFunctions.R
@@ -168,4 +168,12 @@ test_that("cell works as expected", {
 	expect_equal(cell(2), array(dim = c(2, 2)))
 	expect_equal(cell(3, 4), array(dim = c(3, 4)))
 	expect_equal(cell(5, 7, 6), array(dim = c(5, 7, 6)))
+})
+
+test_that("blanks works as expected", {
+	expect_warning(blanks(-1))
+	expect_equal(suppressWarnings(blanks(-1)), "")
+	expect_equal(blanks(0), "")
+	expect_equal(blanks(1), " ")
+	expect_equal(blanks(10), "          ")
 })
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