[R] Converting integers to chars i.e 1 to "01"

(Ted Harding) Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk
Wed Jan 5 10:44:08 CET 2005


On 05-Jan-05 Gregor GORJANC wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I am producing a set of images and I would like them to be
> sorted by names I give.
> [...]
> So I would like to convert integers to something like 01 if
> upper limit for this conert is 10 or 001 for 100.
> [...]

Hi Gregor,

'formatC' provides access to C-style formatting. For example:

  > formatC(5,format="d",flag="0",width=3)
  [1] "005"

  > formatC(21,format="d",flag="0",width=3)
  [1] "021"

See "?format".

Best wishes,
Ted.


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