[R] sprintf does not fill with "0"?!

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Oliver Bandel
<oliver at first.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hello,
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> 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?!

No, the '0' flag only applies to numeric types (e.g. 'd'), and you
specify a string.  Instead, you want to do something like:

> sprintf("%03d", 1:5)
[1] "001" "002" "003" "004" "005"

/Henrik

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> I use  R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08)
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> Ciao,
>  Oliver
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