[R] sprintf does not fill with "0"?!

[Adaikalavan Ramasamy]

Try

   sprintf("%03.0f", 1:5)

   formatC(1:5, width=3, flag="0")

Regards, Adai



Oliver Bandel wrote:
> Hello,
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> please look here:
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>> sprintf("%03s", as.character(1:5))
> [1] "  1" "  2" "  3" "  4" "  5"
> =================================================================
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> There should be a leading "0" isntead of space-chars?!
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> I use  R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08)
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> Ciao,
>   Oliver
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