Kirsten One way to do this:
kirsten <- c(123, 1234, 12345) 100*as.numeric(paste(substring(kirsten, 1, 3), substring(kirsten, 4, 5), sep='.')) HTH ........ Peter Alspach > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirsten Beyer > Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2007 9:31 a.m. > To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] simple coding question > > I have a list of ICD9 (disease) codes with various formats - 3 digit, > 4 digit, 5 digit. The first three digits of these codes are > what I am most interested in. I would like to either add > zeros to the 3 and 4 digit codes to make them 5 digit codes > or add decimal points to put them all in the format ###.##. > I did not see a function that allows me to do this in the > formatting command. This seems simple - can someone help? > > Thanks, > K.Beyer > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________________ The contents of this e-mail are privileged and/or confidenti...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
