[R] force fixed format

John Fox jfox at mcmaster.ca
Thu Jan 1 22:12:56 CET 2004


At 09:04 PM 1/1/2004 +0100, Fredrik Lundgren wrote:
>Hello,
>A small problem I can't solve
>
>  > p <- 0.0001
> > p
>[1] 1e-04
>
>How can I force the printout of p to 0.0001?
>I have tried 'format', 'round', 'signif', 'print' in different 
>combinations without success.
>

If the issue is general, try the scipen option:

 > options(scipen=10)
 > p <- 0.0001
 > p
[1] 0.0001

I hope that this helps,
  John
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