Hi Josh, Check ?formatC and ?sprintf for some options. Regards, Jorge.- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity and misspelling.
On Jul 27, 2012, at 12:49 AM, LCOG1 <jr...@lcog.org> wrote: > Hi all, > Trying to use an apply to add leading zeros to a set of values in a > given vector. I only want to add enough zeros so that the total number of > characters is 5, so if I have an element "1" i want "00001" or "9000" I want > "09000". I tried > > vec <- 1:1000 > sapply(vec, FUN = sprintf(paste("%0",(5-nchar(x)),"d",sep=""),x)) > > but she doesnt work. I struggle with the apply family for sure. Thanks > > Josh > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/add-leading-zeros-tp4638031.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.