I don't know why sprintf does not work for you. Here is something
close; you will have to work on the spacing but the formating in
sprintf lets you specify the field size:
> sprintf("%2s %-20s%6d%14.5f", "7", "WORD", 5550, 3.14158)
[1] " 7 WORD 5550 3.14158"
>
On Fri, Mar
Within R I need to reformat my data so that the output looks like the following:
" 7 WORDS 5550 3.14159 -6. 6."
Previous folks were doing this by hand, but I would like to have a formula do
it.
That is,
(a) 7 (place holder) on second column, then a spac
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