Add leading zeros — leading_zeros • guideR

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)
#> [1] "0002" "0103" "1042" "0012" "  NA"
leading_zeros(v, digits = 1)
#> [1] "0002.0" "0103.2" "1042.1" "0012.5" "    NA"
leading_zeros(v, left_digits = 6, big.mark = " ")
#> [1] "000 002" "000 103" "001 042" "000 012" "     NA"
leading_zeros(c(0, 6, 12, 18), prefix = "M")
#> [1] "M00" "M06" "M12" "M18"