On Nov 6, 2013, at 10:25 AM, Alaios <ala...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> the following returns the hour and the minutes
>
> paste(DataSet$TimeStamps[selectedInterval$start,4],
> DataSet$TimeStamps[selectedInterval$start,5],sep=":")
> [1] "12:3"
>
> the problem is that from these two I want to create a time stamp so 12:03.
> The problem is that the number 3 is not converted to 03. Is there an easy way
> when I have one digit integer to add a zero in the front? Two digits integers
> are working fine so far, 12:19, or 12:45 would appear correctly
>
> I would like to thank you in advance for your help
>
> Regards
> Alex
This is an example where using ?sprintf gives you more control:
> sprintf("%02d:%02d", 12, 3)
[1] "12:03"
> sprintf("%02d:%02d", 9, 3)
[1] "09:03"
The syntax '%02d' tells sprintf to print the integer and pad with leading
zeroes to two characters where needed.
Regards,
Marc Schwartz
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