Re: Format integer

by Tony Plate :: Rate this Message:

Try something like one of these (as documented in ?formatC)

> formatC(13, flag="0", width=10)
[1] "0000000013"
> sprintf("%010g", 13)
[1] "0000000013"
>

Anh Tran wrote:

> Hi,
> What's one way to convert an integer to a string with preceding 0's?
> such that
> '13' becomes '00000000013'
> to be put into a string
>
> I've tried formatC, but they removes all the zeros and replace it with
> blanks
>
> Thanks
>

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