Thanks. formatC(flag) works. But it's awefully slow. I try to do that for 65000 numbers (generating ID for each item) and it seems like forever. Is there any faster way?
Thank all. Anh Tran On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Uwe Ligges < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anh Tran wrote: > > > Hi, > > What's one way to convert an integer to a string with preceding 0's? > > such that > > '13' becomes '00000000013' > > to be put into a string > > > > I've tried formatC, but they removes all the zeros and replace it with > > blanks > > > > Not so for me: > > formatC(13, digits=10, flag="0") > > Uwe LIgges > > > > > Thanks > > > > -- Regards, Anh Tran [[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.