pad.left: Print a vector with appropriate padding so each has equal...

In NCmisc: Miscellaneous Functions for Creating Adaptive Functions and Scripts

Print a vector with appropriate padding so each has equal char length.

Description

Print a vector with appropriate padding so each has equal char length.

Usage

pad.left(X, char = " ", numdigits = NA)

Arguments

X	vector of data to pad to equal length
char	character to pad with, space is default, but zero might be a desirable choice for padding numbers
numdigits	if using numeric data, the number of digits to keep

Value

returns the vector in character format with equal nchar()

Author(s)

Nicholas Cooper [e-mail]

Examples

pad.left(1:10)
phone.numbers <- c("07429719234","7876345123","7123543765")
pad.left(phone.numbers,"0")
pad.left(rnorm(10),numdigits=3)

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