[R] replaing 1-digit months with 2-digit months in a date

[Dimitri Liakhovitski]

Thanks a lot, Henrique,
but I realised, my strings look a bit more complicated, like this:
x<-c("starts 2000.1 some words","starts 2001.2 different
words","starts 2008.10 other stuff","starts 2010.12 sth else")

I tried to modify the gsub statement but can't get it working.
Thank you for your help!
Dimitri


On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Henrique Dallazuanna <wwwhsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Try this:
>
> gsub("\\.(\\d{1}$)", ".0\\1", x)
>
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski
> <dimitri.liakhovitski at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello again!
>>
>> Sorry, if it's a simple question - I am very bad in working with strings.
>>
>> I have a vector of strings:
>> x<-c("2000.1","2000.2","2000.10","2000.12")
>>
>> I'd like to change it so that it the month always has 2 digits, like this:
>>
>> "2000.01","2000.02","2000.10","2000.12"
>>
>>
>> Is it possible?
>> Thanks a lot!
>> --
>> Dimitri Liakhovitski
>> Ninah Consulting
>> www.ninah.com
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