Formatting a date in R without leading zeros
问题 Is there a way to use the format function on a date object, specifically an object of class POSIXlt , POSIXct , or Date , with the format %Y, %m, %d such that leading zeros are stripped from each of those 3 fields? For example, I would like format(as.Date("1998-09-02"), "%Y, %m, %d") to return 1998, 9, 2 and not 1998, 09, 02 . 回答1: Just remove the leading zeros at the end: > gsub(" 0", " ", format(as.Date("1998-09-02"), "%Y, %m, %d")) [1] "1998, 9, 2" Use %e to obtain a leading space instead