#' MOVED Add padding to string #' #' @param d vector of strings or numbers #' @param length final string length #' @param after if padding should be added after as opposed to default before #' @param pad padding string of length 1 #' @param lead leading string for all. Number or character vector. Cycled. #' @param tail tailing string for all. Number or character vector. Cycled. #' #' @return vector or character strings of same length. #' @export #' #' @examples #' add_padding(sample(1:200,5),tail="AA",lead=c(2,3,"e")) add_padding <- function(d,length=NULL,after=FALSE,pad="0",lead=NULL,tail=NULL){ if (!is.vector(d)) { stop("Please supply vector") } if (nchar(pad)!=1) { stop("Padding value should be just a single character or digit") } ns <- nchar(d) if (is.null(length)){ l <- max(ns) } else { l <- length } ps <- unlist(lapply(l-ns,function(i){ paste(rep(pad,i),collapse="")})) if (after) { out <- paste0(d,ps) } else { out <- paste0(ps,d) } paste0(lead,out,tail) }