[R] show numbers not rounded

Gavin Simpson gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk
Fri Feb 28 14:43:02 CET 2003


format.pval() as in:

format.pval(1-pf(((RSSred-RSSful)/2)/(RSSful/(34-3)),2,34-3),digits = 5)

see ?format for more information

Gav

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-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-admin at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-admin at stat.math.ethz.ch]
On Behalf Of Christoph Lehmann
Sent: 28 February 2003 13:18
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] show numbers not rounded


how can I show an number not rounded, but in the format, eg. x.xxxx 

e.g. 
> signif(1-pf(((RSSred-RSSful)/2)/(RSSful/(34-3)),2,34-3),digits = 5)

shows
[1] 0

but I need something like

[1] 2.2e-16


thanks
christoph
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