On Dec 12, 2011, at 7:23 AM, threshold wrote:
Dear R users, I got the following problem. Given that
data[3,2]
[1] "010252"
Code:
intro <- data.frame()
intro[1,1] <- as.character(data[3,2])
write.csv(intro, file='intro.csv')
In 'intro.csv' file I am loosing the 0 in frot of 10252, which I
need. Is
there a way to keep the full character saved? R 2.13.2 (64 bit).
Let me guess. The way you are looking at the output is with Excel and
you are bothered by the fact that Excel will drop leading zeros from
items it can interpret as numbers.
If you use Excel as a viewer, you get what Excel thinks you should
get. My attempt to format the range where the data will be loaded as
"Text", and then load from the CSV file, failed to preserve the
leading "0" using Excel 2011 (for Mac). That strategy used to work for
me in prior versions of Excel at least for preventinting from
converting text to dates, but the MS people seem to have decided to be
even more "helpful".
--
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT
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