[R] format a number

[Romain Francois]

Hello,

 > sub( "^([- ])?0+", "\\1", format(v, digits=2) )
[1] " .44" "-.22"

Cheers,

Romain


Martin Kaffanke wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I have i.e. v = c(0.43554, -0.22343), and so on.  Now I'd like to make a
> format like
>
> format(v, digits=2)  but without the leading 0, so 0.43554 becomes .44,
> -0.22343 becomes -.22 
>
> How can I do that?
>
> runnable example for copy and paste:
>
> v = c(0.43554, -0.22343)
> format(v, digits=2)
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
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