How to add leading zeros?

Question

I have a set of data which looks something like this:

anim <- c(25499,25500,25501,25502,25503,25504)
sex  <- c(1,2,2,1,2,1)
wt   <- c(0.8,1.2,1.0,2.         


        

Answer 1

For other circumstances in which you want the number string to be consistent, I made a function.

Someone may find this useful:

idnamer<-function(x,y){#Alphabetical designation and number of integers required
    id<-c(1:y)
    for (i in 1:length(id)){
         if(nchar(id[i])<2){
            id[i]<-paste("0",id[i],sep="")
         }
    }
    id<-paste(x,id,sep="")
    return(id)
}
idnamer("EF",28)

Sorry about the formatting.