On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:19 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Copying list one what was sent in reply. Anybody have a better solution?
>
No sure my solution is better, but it avoids the integer conversion
and retains the "/".
I wrote a function that padds entries of input character vector with
zeros to final length 'length'.
padZeros = function(x, length)
{
n = length(x);
out = rep("", n);
for (i in 1:length(x))
{
l = nchar(x[i]);
out[i] = paste( paste(rep("0", length-l), collapse = ""), x[i], sep = "");
}
out
}
> padZeros(c("33/22", "4/50005", "6644/2233"), length = 12)
[1] "000000033/22" "000004/50005" "0006644/2233"
HTH,
Peter
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