[R] number formatting

[McGehee, Robert]

> x <- .001
> x
[1] 0.001
> sub("+0", "", x)
[1] ".001"

Of course, that means you'll be storing this number as a character, but
if you're looking to format how the number is printed, that's probably
what you want.

-----Original Message-----
From: Laura Holt [mailto:lauraholt_983 at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 2:43 PM
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] number formatting


Dear R People:

I have used the command round(x,3) to produce values with 3 places to
the 
right of the decimal.

Is there any command to remove the leading zero before the decimal
point, 
please:  that is, if I have 0.375, how do I produce just .375, please?

Thanks in advance
R 2.0.1 for Windows

Sincerely,
Laura Holt
mailto: lauraholt_983 at hotmail.com

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