[R] R is converting arg input to scientific notation, which is bad!

[peter dalgaard]

On 20 Jun 2014, at 04:30 , David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:

> I think it's your `digits = 0` argument:
> 
>> formatC(20, digits = 3, width = 3, flag = "0")
> [1] "020"

At any rate, sprintf() is often more convenient:

> sprintf("%03d.csv", c(30, 104, 223))
[1] "030.csv" "104.csv" "223.csv"


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