HI, You can also use "gsub" set.seed(1) dat1<-data.frame(OreTot=c(40,-7,41,35,7,15),GeoTot=c(TRUE,FALSE,TRUE,FALSE,TRUE,NA),OreCli=as.numeric(sample(1:25,6,replace=TRUE)))
dat1[,1]<-ifelse(dat1[,1]>0,gsub("(\\d+)","+\\1",dat1[,1]),dat1[,1]) dat1[,3]<-ifelse(dat1[,3]>0,gsub("(\\d+)","+\\1",dat1[,3]),dat1[,3]) dat1 # OreTot GeoTot OreCli #1 +40 TRUE +7 #2 -7 FALSE +10 #3 +41 TRUE +15 #4 +35 FALSE +23 #5 +7 TRUE +6 #6 +15 NA +23 ----- Original Message ----- From: Luca Meyer <lucam1...@gmail.com> To: R help <R-help@r-project.org> Cc: Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:54 AM Subject: [R] Leading plus in numeric fields Hello R experts, I have go this data frame: 'data.frame': 1 obs. of 20 variables: $ Anno : chr "PREVISIONI VS TARGET" $ OreTot: num 41 $ GioTot: logi NA $ OrGTot: logi NA $ OreCli: num 99 $ GioCli: logi NA $ OrGCli: logi NA $ OreFor: num -27 $ GioFor: logi NA $ OrGFor: logi NA $ OreOrt: num -18 $ GioOrt: logi NA $ OrGOrt: logi NA $ OreSpo: num -6 $ GioSpo: logi NA $ OrGSpo: logi NA $ OreUff: num -7 $ GioUff: logi NA $ OrGUff: logi NA $ temp : num 0 Is there any way I can format the numeric fields so that I get a leading "+" whenever the value is > 0? In the specific case I would need something like: 'data.frame': 1 obs. of 20 variables: $ Anno : chr "PREVISIONI VS TARGET" $ OreTot: num +41 $ GioTot: logi NA $ OrGTot: logi NA $ OreCli: num +99 $ GioCli: logi NA $ OrGCli: logi NA $ OreFor: num -27 $ GioFor: logi NA $ OrGFor: logi NA $ OreOrt: num -18 $ GioOrt: logi NA $ OrGOrt: logi NA $ OreSpo: num -6 $ GioSpo: logi NA $ OrGSpo: logi NA $ OreUff: num -7 $ GioUff: logi NA $ OrGUff: logi NA $ temp : num 0 Thank you in advance, Luca Mr. Luca Meyer www.lucameyer.com R version 2.15.1 Mac OS X 10.8 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.