Formats decimals and leading zeroes for creating reports in scientific style,
to be consistent with American Psychological Association (APA) format. This
function creates "pretty" character vectors from numeric variables for
printing as part of a report. The value can take a single number, matrix,
vector, or multiple columns from a data frame, as long as they are numeric.
The values will be coerced into numeric if they are characters or logical
values, but this process may result in an error if values are truly
alphabetical.