On Mar 14, 2013, at 9:42 AM, Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello again, > > Let say I have following string: > > Vec <- c("sada", "asdsa", "sa") > > Now I want to make each element of this vector with equal length. > Basically I want following vector: > > c("sada ", "asdsa", "sa ") > > Therefore we can get: > >> nchar(c("sada ", "asdsa", "sa ")) > [1] 5 5 5 > > > Is there any possiblity that we can do it programetically? Because I > need to handle a really big vector. > > Thanks for your help. ?format will by default, left justify and pad with spaces to the longest length element in the character vector: Vec <- c("sada", "asdsa", "sa") > format(Vec) [1] "sada " "asdsa" "sa " Regards, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ 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.