From 7a50dee2994d145a4151e67698771bb370c73be5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laura DeCicco <ldecicco@usgs.gov> Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 14:25:30 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Vectorized padVariable. --- R/padVariable.r | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/R/padVariable.r b/R/padVariable.r index b97c1915..0f2b04f5 100644 --- a/R/padVariable.r +++ b/R/padVariable.r @@ -10,11 +10,13 @@ #' @examples #' pCode <- '10' #' correctPCode <- padVariable(pCode,5) +#' pCodes <- c('100','1000','0','12345','1565465465465465') +#' correctPCodes <- padVariable(pCodes,5) padVariable <- function(x,padTo){ + if(padTo <= 1) return(x) numDigits <- nchar(x) - if ((padTo-numDigits)>0){ - leadingZeros <- paste(rep("0",(padTo-numDigits)),collapse="",sep="") - x <- paste(leadingZeros,x,sep="") - } + padding <- padTo-numDigits + padingZeros <- sapply(padding[padding > 0], function(y) paste(rep("0",y),collapse="",sep="")) + x[padding > 0] <- paste(padingZeros,x[padding > 0],sep="") return(x) } -- GitLab