[R] using sprintf with dates

2007-10-02 Thread stephen bond
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. __

Re: [R] using sprintf with dates

2007-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Horner
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

Re: [R] using sprintf with dates

2007-10-02 Thread Alberto Monteiro
stephen bond wrote: foot=function(){ str1=format(Sys.Date,%Y%m%d) sprintf(99%-4s%s,nm,str1) } I wanted to have 99nm 20071002 as the output. Sys.Date is a function. It's perfectly possible to write string - format(Sys.Date, %s) (or, generically, string - format(sin, %s), etc), but