lead_char: Add a leading character to equalize string lengths

In wfforrest/maeve: Modeling Accessories Enabling Visualization of Experiments

Description

Add a leading character to equalize string lengths

Usage

lead_char(x, padChar = "0", padExtra = 0)

Arguments

x	Vector of character, numeric, or factor values to pad. Will be converted immediately to a character vector.
padChar	character to add to the front of values of 'x'. Should be of length 1, or unexpected behavior may result.
padExtra	nonnegative integer of how many extra padChar characters to add to the front of values of 'x'.

Value

character string

Author(s)

Bill Forrest [e-mail]

See Also

mapply

Examples

lead_char( 1:10 )
lead_char( 1:10, padChar = '_' )
data.frame( animal = lead_char( c('cat','alligator', 'heron'), padChar = '_' ) )

wfforrest/maeve documentation built on Jan. 1, 2021, 12:47 p.m.