[R] Format integer

Charilaos Skiadas cskiadas at gmail.com
Mon May 12 23:45:06 CEST 2008


On May 12, 2008, at 5:22 PM, 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

formatC(13, width=10, format="d", flag="0")

> Thanks
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Anh Tran

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College



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