Try this:

trunc(x / 10 ^ nchar(x) * 100)

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Christian Schoder
<schoc152@newschool.edu>wrote:

> hi R-users!
>
> does anyone know how I can access/print only the first two digits of a
> number? if i have the number 23732, i would like to get 23. if i have
> 355 i would like to get 35. if i have 4 i would like to get 40.
>
> thanks for your help!
>
> christian
>
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