stephen bond wrote on 10/02/2007 08:36 AM:
> hello,
>
> Please help with using sprintf with character variables:
> The following does not produce what i intended
>
> foot=function(){
> str1=format(Sys.Date,"%Y%m%d")
> sprintf("99%-4s%s","nm",str1)
> }
>
> I wanted to have "99nm 20071002" as the output.
You forgot the parens after Sys.Date:
foot=function(){
str1=format(Sys.Date(),"%Y%m%d")
sprintf("99%-4s%s","nm",str1)
}
Jeff
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