R function passing variable as string when first character is 0

Question

I'm new to R and i'm trying to pass a 3 character as a function variable that begins with a zero, but it concatenates the zero. How do I pass it as a 3 characters beginning with zero?

  some_fun(007)
  
  some_fun(x){
    x
  }

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akrun · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-01T22:22:52.900

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Perhaps, we need to pass a string. If it is a numeric value with leading zeros, it will be dropped as the numeric don't allow it. An option is to convert to character class

some_fun <- function(x) {
              sprintf('%03d', x)
 }
some_fun(7)
#[1] "007"

edited Nov 01 '20 at 22:22

answered Nov 01 '20 at 22:18

akrun

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can this be done inside the function? – alz chow Nov 01 '20 at 22:21
@alzchow updated the post with the function – akrun Nov 01 '20 at 22:23

R function passing variable as string when first character is 0

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