Hello,
please look here:
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> sprintf("%03s", as.character(1:5))
[1] " 1" " 2" " 3" " 4" " 5"
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There should be a leading "0" isntead of space-chars?!
I use R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08)
Ciao,
Oliver