Re: [R] using sprintf with dates

2007-10-02 Thread Alberto Monteiro
stephen bond wrote: > > foot=function(){ > str1=format(Sys.Date,"%Y%m%d") > sprintf("99%-4s%s","nm",str1) > } > > I wanted to have "99nm 20071002" as the output. > Sys.Date is a function. It's perfectly possible to write string <- format(Sys.Date, "%s") (or, generically, string <- format(si

Re: [R] using sprintf with dates

2007-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Horner
stephen bond wrote on 10/02/2007 08:36 AM: > hello, > > Please help with using sprintf with character variables: > The following does not produce what i intended > > foot=function(){ > str1=format(Sys.Date,"%Y%m%d") > sprintf("99%-4s%s","nm",str1) > } > > I wanted to have "99nm 20071002" as

[R] using sprintf with dates

2007-10-02 Thread stephen bond
hello, Please help with using sprintf with character variables: The following does not produce what i intended foot=function(){ str1=format(Sys.Date,"%Y%m%d") sprintf("99%-4s%s","nm",str1) } I wanted to have "99nm 20071002" as the output. __ R-he