[R] Expressing number in percentage

[Marc Schwartz]

On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 14:36 +0100, stat stat wrote:
> I am wondering if there is any procedure to write a particular value
> in Percentage format, still maintaining it's numeric character. for
> example I want to write '.33' as '33%' 

See ?sprintf

> sprintf("%.0f%%", .33 * 100)
[1] "33%"


Note that the trailing '%' needs to be doubled to be recognized as the
character and not a format specifier.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz