Re: [R] string to numeric question

2008-09-24 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
See ?sprintf, e.g. x2Str <- sprintf("%02d", as.integer(x)) where 'x2' is numeric. Use x <- as.numeric(xStr) to convert string 'xStr' to numeric and x <- x + 1 to change the value. /HB On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:51 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this seems l ike it shouldn't be that hard but i

[R] string to numeric question

2008-09-24 Thread markleeds
this seems l ike it shouldn't be that hard but i give up. if i have a string say, temp<-"01", I want to increase it by 1 so that it becomes "02". but the following code obviously won't work when the input string is say "10" because then it gives "011" when I just want "11". uuugh. does so