[R] print only 2 digits of number

[Peter Langfelder]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Christian Schoder
<schoc152 at newschool.edu> wrote:
> hi R-users!
>
> does anyone know how I can access/print only the first two digits of a
> number? if i have the number 23732, i would like to get 23. if i have
> 355 i would like to get 35. if i have 4 i would like to get 40.

It's a strange request, but this should do it:

substring(as.character(number*100), 1, 2)

It will not work on 0 and may not give you what you want on negative
numbers and on numbers between 0 and 1, but you get the idea.

Peter