My guess is that you cannot keep it numeric, but that you have to convert it to a string (the gurus may know better).
x=001 x x="001" x Daniel ------------------------- cuncta stricte discussurus ------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of venkata kirankumar Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:47 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Problem with retreaving numeric data Hi all, I am trying to get a value from a dataset in data set its stored as 001 but while i am trying to retreave it its giving as 1 can any one help me to retreave it as 001 thanks in advance kiran [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.