[Rd] fix for a major format.pval limitation
Charles Dupont
charles.dupont at vanderbilt.edu
Tue Feb 20 21:47:18 CET 2007
'format.pval' has a major limitation in its implementation for example
suppose a person had a vector like 'a' and the error being ±0.001.
> a <- c(0.1, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.3, 0.0001)
> format.pval(a, eps=0.001)
The person wants to have the 'format.pval' output with 2 digits always
showing like this
[1] "0.10" "0.30" "0.40" "0.50" "0.30" "<0.001"
How ever format.pval can only display this
[1] "0.1" "0.3" "0.4" "0.5" "0.3" "<0.001"
If this was the 'format' function this could be corrected by setting the
'nsmall' argument to 2. But 'format.pval' has no ability to pass
arguments to format.
I think that the best solution would be to give 'format.pval' a '...'
argument that would get passed to all the 'format' function calls in
'format.pval'.
I have attached a patch that does this. This patch is against svn
r-release-branch and will also apply to r-devel.
Charles Dupont
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Charles Dupont Computer System Analyst School of Medicine
Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University
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