leading_zeros: Add leading zeros

In guideR: Miscellaneous Statistical Functions Used in 'guide-R'

Add leading zeros

Description

Add leading zeros

Usage

leading_zeros(x, left_digits = NULL, digits = 0, prefix = "", suffix = "", ...)

Arguments

x	a numeric vector
left_digits	number of digits before decimal point, automatically computed if not provided
digits	number of digits after decimal point
prefix, suffix	Symbols to display before and after value
...	additional parameters passed to base::formatC(), as big.mark or decimal.mark

Value

A character vector of the same length as x.

See Also

base::formatC(), base::sprintf()

Examples

v <- c(2, 103.24, 1042.147, 12.4566, NA)
leading_zeros(v)
leading_zeros(v, digits = 1)
leading_zeros(v, left_digits = 6, big.mark = " ")
leading_zeros(c(0, 6, 12, 18), prefix = "M")

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