You seem to be confusing **what** is printed with *how* it is printed.
> print(9) ## a numeric (not an integer, actually. That would be 9L)
[1] 9 ## default print format
> print(formatC(9, width =2, flag = "0")) ## format specification
[1] "09"
> print(formatC(9, width =2, flag = "0"), quote = FALSE) # don't show quotes
[1] 09
See ?formatC and ?print.default for details
-- Bert
On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 9:22 AM akshay kulkarni <akshay...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear members,
> I came across this queer thing during my
> analysis:
> > as.integer("09098")
> 9098
>
> Any idea on how to retain the "0"?
>
> Yours sincerely,
> AKSHAY M KULKARNI
>
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