---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ole Peter Smith <ole....@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [R] Leading zeros To: David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>
I'm all new to R, assisting the last days of topics from the sideline. I am, however, a longterm programmer. This question makes me ask myself - and now here - is there any string split-function, ex some thing like: split('/',"2000/3000/4") --> (2000,3000,4) After this patting with zero is a breeze, sprintf('%010d',... 0le On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:19 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Copying list one what was sent in reply. Anybody have a better solution? > >> On Aug 19, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Vasco Cadavez wrote: >> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> A solution can be by substring to remove the / >>> then numeric will be ok! What you think? >>> >>> How can I remove the / >> > with sub or gsub: > >> sprintf("%010.0f", as.integer(gsub("/","", c("4/3003","55/333","66/22")) >> )) > [1] "0000043003" "0000055333" "0000006622" > > -- > David. > >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Vasco Cadavez >>> >>> ----- Menssagem Original ----- >>> De: >>> "David Winsemius" <dwinsem...@comcast.net> >>> >>> Para: >>> "David Winsemius" <dwinsem...@comcast.net> >>> Cópia: >>> "Vasco Cadavez" <vcadavez@ipbpt>, <r-help@r-project.org> >>> Enviado: >>> Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:51:08 -0400 >>> Assunto: >>> Re: [R] Leading zeros >>> >>> >>> >>> On Aug 19, 2011, at 11:17 AM, David Winsemius wrote: >>> >>> > >>> > On Aug 19, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Vasco Cadavez wrote: >>> > >>> >> Hello, >>> >> I have a dataset with an Id columns like: >>> >> 4/3003 >>> >> 55/333 >>> >> 66/22 >>> >> I want to put leading zeros to get: >>> >> 00000004/3003 >>> >> 000000055/333 >>> >> 0000000066/22 >>> >> >>> >> How can I solve this? >>> > >>> > ?sprintf >>> > ?formatC >>> > >>> I may have been too quick. Padding with leading zeros using sprintf is >>> described for numeric but not for character types. There are severa > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- ///// ( O O ) =================oOO==(_)==OOo================= God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically - Einstein .oooO Oooo. ==================( )=( )===================== \ ( ) / \_) (_/ =============================================== Ole Peter Smith, IME, UFG http://www.mat.ufg.br/docentes/olepeter - ole at mat.ufg.br =============================================== Life sure is a Mystery to be Lived Not a Problem to be Solved =============================================== -- ///// ( O O ) =================oOO==(_)==OOo================= God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically - Einstein .oooO Oooo. ==================( )=( )===================== \ ( ) / \_) (_/ =============================================== Ole Peter Smith, IME, UFG http://www.mat.ufg.br/docentes/olepeter - ole at mat.ufg.br =============================================== Life sure is a Mystery to be Lived Not a Problem to be Solved =============================================== ______________________________________________ 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.