miscset (version 0.4)

leading0: Numeric to Character with Leading Zero(s)

Description

Transform numeric values to character string prepending leading zero(s).

Usage

leading0(num, digits = 2)

Arguments

num

Numeric vector (character also possible) to transform.

digits

Numeric value of minimum length of output strings.

Value

• Character vector with same length of strings of each value. Original "string" is prepended by zero(s). String length is at least max(nchar(as.character(num))).

Examples

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# use with paste to generate strings of equal size:
paste0("observation", leading0(1:10, 3))

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