[R-sig-Geo] Digit positions in writing files

[马可]

Thanks Robert,sprintf works exactly what I want~

Marco



2010/12/2 Robert J. Hijmans <r.hijmans at gmail.com>:
> Have a look at sprintf
>
> Robert
>
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:41 AM, 马可 <wul1984 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, list:
>>
>> I am processing a kind of data which has very strict format on digit
>> position, ie., for the first column, the last digit should be in column 5,
>> the second in column 10, and 16, 24, 32 for the 3rd, 4th, and 5th,
>> respectively. Here is the segment:
>>
>>        29  -999  1051   69.58   23.53
>>        30  -999  1052   70.67   23.67
>>        31  -999  1053   70.68   23.68
>>        32  -999  1055   71.10   24.00
>>         .......
>>   13642 -999 97890   -7.83  129.67
>>   13643   30 97900   -7.98  131.30
>>   13644  100 97980   -8.47  140.38
>>   13645   66 98132   20.80  121.85
>>   13646 -999 98133   19.27  121.47
>>
>> My aim is to replace the coordinates of certain rows using new coordinates,
>> and put the whole file back into the same filee, but it seems that I can
>> only get constant spaces between each column if I use write.table, with
>> sep=' '. So, my question is, is there any way that I could get the desired
>> format? By the way, I have more than 10,000 rows in each file (day), and 365
>> days for each year, I think for me, R is the only way to do this.
>>
>> Thanks in advance~
>>
>> Best regards~
>>
>> Marco
>>
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