[R] format numbers into percentages

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 3:36 PM, tom soyer <tom.soyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I am currently using the following to formate numbers into percentages:
>
>  x=0.00112
>  paste(round(x*100,2),"%",sep="")

My favorite is sprintf(), which allow you to control number of digits
at the same time you control for width etc, e.g.:

  x <- seq(from=0, to=1, by=0.05)
  s1 <- sprintf("%.2f%%", 100*x)
  s2 <- sprintf("%6.2f%%", 100*x)

/H
>
>  I am wondering if there is a built in R function that does the same. Does
>  anyone know?
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  --
>  Tom
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