Ok. You needed the format string.
xify(4.1) would be equivalent to the following:
paste(paste(rep("X",4),collapse=""),paste(rep("X",1),collapse=""),sep=".")
It should be straightforward to write the wrapper function for this.
HTH.
-Christos
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From: Bashir Saghir (Aztek Global) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 10:39 AM
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Subject: RE: [R] String manipulation and formatting
Thanks.
I should have been clearer. The output is the string "XXX.XX" and "XXX".
So xify(4.1) should produce "XXX.X" as character string.
Any pointers? Or did I miss something with formatC?
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From: Christos Hatzis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 16:21
To: Bashir Saghir (Aztek Global); [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [R] String manipulation and formatting
See ?formatC
You might need to write a simple wrapper function to implement the interface
that you want.
-Christos
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Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 10:07 AM
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Subject: [R] String manipulation and formatting
I'm trying to write a simple function that does the following:
[command] xify(5.2)
[output] XXX.XX
[command] xify(3)
[output] XXX
Any simple solutions (without using python/perl/unix script/...)?
Thanks,
Saghir
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