[R] Formatting numbers with a limited amount of digits consistently

Henrik Andersson h.andersson at nioo.knaw.nl
Mon May 30 16:43:20 CEST 2005


I have tried to get signif, round and format to display numbers like 
these consistently in a table, using e.g. signif(x,digits=3)

17.01
18.15

I want

17.0
18.2

Not

17
18.2


Why is the last digit stripped off in the case when it is zero!

Is this a "feature" of R or did I miss something?



---------------------------------------------
Henrik Andersson
Netherlands Institute of Ecology -
Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology
P.O. Box 140
4400 AC Yerseke
Phone: +31 113 577473
h.andersson at nioo.knaw.nl
http://www.nioo.knaw.nl/ppages/handersson




More information about the R-help mailing list