[R] Number Format
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Oct 14 11:48:27 CEST 2003
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, michael watson (IAH-C) wrote:
> A very simple question on number formats. After some calculations, some
> variables I have come out looking like this:
>
> -1.892972e+00
>
> Now apart from the fact that the "e+00" is completely redundant, I would
> rather have the number represented without the e bit. I want to export
> data like this to a text file and would rather have:
>
> -1.892972
>
> than
>
> -1.892972e+00
>
> I have tried options(digits = 12) or something similar but that doesn't
> seem to help. How can I get R to export this data without the e+00?
I think you need to tell us how you got it to output that way! I get
> -1.892972e+00
[1] -1.892972
So I suspect this is part of a set of numbers, all in scientific format.
You can control that with options(scipen=) in R 1.8.0: see its help page.
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