[R] formatting

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Ruud H. Koning wrote:

> Hello, I must be missing something obvious. I have  a 8x4 matrix, the first
> column is
>              0              1              2              3              4
>   9.470986e-01   5.147677e-02   1.398934e-03   2.534499e-05   3.443882e-07
>    more than 4 nominal payoff     exp.payoff
>   3.777820e-09   2.000000e+06   1.972907e+06
>
> I would like to have it printed such that all all numbers bigger than 1e-4
> are not printed in scientific notation.
> I thought that format(table.result) would do this job, but it seems not to
> apply the scientific setting to each individual element.

It does if you format element-by-element, which you can.

> How do I get thes enumbers printed as
>
> 0.9471 0.05148 0.001399 2.534e-05, etc? Is it also possible to print 10-5
> instead of e-5?

Only if your C run-time allows it.

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