[R] Format integer

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On May 12, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Anh Tran wrote:

> Hi,
> What's one way to convert an integer to a string with preceding 0's?
> such that
> '13' becomes '00000000013'
> to be put into a string
>
> I've tried formatC, but they removes all the zeros and replace it with
> blanks

formatC(13, width=10, format="d", flag="0")

> Thanks
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Anh Tran

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College