R help - Sep 2007 - text formatting

Dear all,

Does R have any functions for C/Fortran style text formatting when a 
number needs to be output right-justified in a fixed length field?

say '%2d %3d %5.3f' 

or like python .rjust(n)  and .zfill(n)

I can do it paste(), but it is very clumsy.

Thank you very much
Stephen

?sprintf might be what you want...
/S?ren

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Dear all,

Does R have any functions for C/Fortran style text formatting when a 
number needs to be output right-justified in a fixed length field?

say '%2d %3d %5.3f' 

or like python .rjust(n)  and .zfill(n)

I can do it paste(), but it is very clumsy.

Thank you very much
Stephen

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stephen bond <stenka1 at go.com> wrote:
> Does R have any functions for C/Fortran style text formatting when a 
> number needs to be output right-justified in a fixed length field?
> 
> say '%2d %3d %5.3f' 
?formatC

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