[R] Format integer

[Tony Plate]

Try something like one of these (as documented in ?formatC)

 > formatC(13, flag="0", width=10)
[1] "0000000013"
 > sprintf("%010g", 13)
[1] "0000000013"
 >

Anh Tran wrote:
> Hi,
> What's one way to convert an integer to a string with preceding 0's?
> such that
> '13' becomes '00000000013'
> to be put into a string
> 
> I've tried formatC, but they removes all the zeros and replace it with
> blanks
> 
> Thanks
>