Try this, formatC(d %% 1e5, width=5, flag = "0", mode="integer")
[1] "00735" "02019" "04131" "04217" "04629" "04822" "10115" "11605" "14477" [10] "15314" "15438" "19040" "19603" "22735" "22853" "23415" "24227" "24423" HTH, baptiste 2009/7/31 PDXRugger <j_r...@hotmail.com>: > > > I would like to recreate "data" so that only the last 5 digits of the below > data are inlcuded as data so 2005000002019 would become 02019. Any ideas. > > data=c(2005000000735, > 2005000002019, > 2005000004131, > 2005000004217, > 2005000004629, > 2005000004822, > 2005000010115, > 2005000011605, > 2005000014477, > 2005000015314, > 2005000015438, > 2005000019040, > 2005000019603, > 2005000022735, > 2005000022853, > 2005000023415, > 2005000024227, > 2005000024423) > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/removing-intial-numerals-tp24763596p24763596.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. > -- _____________________________ Baptiste Auguié School of Physics University of Exeter Stocker Road, Exeter, Devon, EX4 4QL, UK http://newton.ex.ac.uk/research/emag ______________________________________________ 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.