[R] Odp: Generating unque patient IDs

[jim holtman]

Does this do it for you:

> sprintf("%010.0f", seq(1000000000.0, length = 250, by = 1.0))
  [1] "1000000000" "1000000001" "1000000002" "1000000003" "1000000004"
"1000000005" "1000000006"
  [8] "1000000007" "1000000008" "1000000009" "1000000010" "1000000011"
"1000000012" "1000000013"
 [15] "1000000014" "1000000015" "1000000016" "1000000017" "1000000018"
"1000000019" "1000000020"
 [22] "1000000021" "1000000022" "1000000023" "1000000024" "1000000025"
"1000000026" "1000000027"
 [29] "1000000028" "1000000029" "1000000030" "1000000031" "1000000032"
"1000000033" "1000000034"
 [36] "1000000035" "1000000036" "1000000037" "1000000038" "1000000039"
"1000000040" "1000000041"
 [43] "1000000042" "1000000043" "1000000044" "1000000045" "1000000046"
"1000000047" "1000000048"
 [50] "1000000049" "1000000050" "1000000051" "1000000052" "1000000053"
"1000000054" "1000000055"
 [57] "1000000056" "1000000057" "1000000058" "1000000059" "1000000060"
"1000000061" "1000000062"
 [64] "1000000063" "1000000064" "1000000065" "1000000066" "1000000067"
"1000000068" "1000000069"
 [71] "1000000070" "1000000071" "1000000072" "1000000073" "1000000074"
"1000000075" "1000000076"
 [78] "1000000077" "1000000078" "1000000079" "1000000080" "1000000081"
"1000000082" "1000000083"
 [85] "1000000084" "1000000085" "1000000086" "1000000087" "1000000088"
"1000000089" "1000000090"
 [92] "1000000091" "1000000092" "1000000093" "1000000094" "1000000095"
"1000000096" "1000000097"

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Petr PIKAL <petr.pikal at precheza.cz> wrote:
> Hi
>>
>> Dear group,
>>
>> I am trying to prepare a NONMEM friendly dataset for population PK
>> analysis. My patient IDs are 10 digit long and NONMEM is losing precison
>> and rouding the last couple of digits.  I need to generate unique
> Patient
>> IDs fromt he current 10-digit IDs.  Ihave total 250 subjects so I
>> appreciate if anybody can suggest me a way to code this in R.
>
> I would start with
>
> ?abbreviate
> and check uniqueness with
> ?unique or ?duplicated
>
> Regards
> Petr
>
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ayyappa
>>
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