On 13-02-2012, at 04:56, z2.0 wrote: > Question: > > I'm trying to use paste() with rep() to reformat a series of values as zip > codes. e.g., if column 1 looks like: > > 52775 > 83111 > 99240 > 4289 > 112 > 57701 > 20001 > > I want rows 4 and 5 to read, > > "04289" > "00112"
This might help x <- c(52775, 83111, 99240, 4289, 112, 57701, 20001) > formatC(x,format="d", flag="0", width=5) [1] "52775" "83111" "99240" "04289" "00112" "57701" "20001" Berend ______________________________________________ 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.
