paddedFloatToChar: Convert numeric to character with padding

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Convert numeric to character with padding

Description

This will pad floating point numbers, right or left. For integers, either class integer or functionally integer (e.g., 1.0), it will not pad right of the decimal. For more specific control or to get exact padding right and left of decimal, try the stringi package. It will also not do any rounding. See examples.

Usage

paddedFloatToChar(x, padL = ceiling(log10(x + 1)), padR = 3, pad = "0")

Arguments

x	numeric. Number to be converted to character with padding
padL	numeric. Desired number of digits on left side of decimal. If not enough, pad will be used to pad.
padR	numeric. Desired number of digits on right side of decimal. If not enough, pad will be used to pad.
pad	character to use as padding (nchar(pad) == 1 must be TRUE).

Value

Character string representing the filename.

Author(s)

Eliot McIntire and Alex Chubaty

Examples

paddedFloatToChar(1.25)
paddedFloatToChar(1.25, padL = 3, padR = 5)
paddedFloatToChar(1.25, padL = 3, padR = 1) # no rounding, so keeps 2 right of decimal

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