[R] as.character ()

[Bill.Venables at csiro.au]

An older alternative uses format()

> x <- c(2.00, 1.20, 5.00, 6.56)
> format(x)
[1] "2.00" "1.20" "5.00" "6.56"



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On Behalf Of jim holtman
Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2008 7:48 AM
To: benlafleche
Cc: R-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] as.character ()

Is this what you want:

> x=c(2.00,1.20,5.00,6.56)
> sprintf("%.2f", x)
[1] "2.00" "1.20" "5.00" "6.56"


On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:45 PM, benlafleche <benlafleche at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to tranform a numeric vector into a character vector.
>
>  > x=c(2.00,1.20,5.00,6.56)
>  > y= as.character(x)
>  > y
> [1] "2"    "1.2"  "5"    "6.56"
>
> What I want is :
>
> [1] "2.00"    "1.20"  "5.00"    "6.56"
>
>
> Does someone know how to do this please ?
>
>
> Benoit Bruneau
>
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