[R] Inserting a character into a character string XXXX

[Gerrit Eichner]

Hello, Dan,

you could probably use a combination of nchar(), substr() (or substring()) 
and paste(). Take a look at their online help pages.

Hth  --  Gerrit


> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a character vector of 24 hour time values in the format hm
> without the delimiting ":". How can I insert the ":" immediately to
> the left of the second digit from the right?
>
> mytimes<-scan(what="")
> 1457
> 1457
> 1310
> 1158
> 137
> 1855
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dan
>
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