[R] Printing numerical matrices

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Here are a couple of alternatives to try:

noquote(format(round(M,3)))

noquote(apply(round(M,3), 2, format))



On 1/17/06, Aleš Žiberna <ales.ziberna at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear useRs!
>
> I athought this was a trival question, however I could not fin dan answer in
> the help files for print, format or formatC. I would like to print a
> numerical matrix so that all cells (all rows/colums) are printed:
> a)      with the same number of decimal places (numbers after the decimal
> separator)
> b)      with the same number of numbers (regardless of  ".")
> c)      with the same number of characters (including "." if present, with
> option for ignoring or not the "-" sign)) - if the last character would be
> ".", it is ommited.
>
> Let say I have a matrix M
>     [,1]        [,2]     [,3]       [,4] [,5]
> [1,]    1 -0.87330578 14.72961  1.0885293  101
> [2,]    2 -0.61406616 13.63638 -0.3124361  102
> [3,]    3 -0.03322147 15.15509 -1.6021408  103
> [4,]    4  1.58780140 15.00857 -0.1908761  104
> [5,]    5  0.75340104 14.80913  0.3210328  105
>
> Which you can get (at least similar) by:
> M<- matrix(rnorm(25),ncol=5,nrow=5)
> M[,1]<-1:5
> M[,3]<-M[,3]+15
> M[,5]<-101:105
>
>
> If I select the number of 3, I want to get:
> a)
>         [,1]   [,2]   [,3]   [,4]     [,5]
> [1,]    1.000 -0.873 14.729  1.088  101.000
> [2,]    2.000 -0.614 13.636 -0.312  102.000
> [3,]    3.000 -0.033 15.155 -1.602  103.000
> [4,]    4.000  1.588 15.009 -0.190  104.000
> [5,]    5.000  0.753 14.809  0.321  105.000
>
> b)
>        [,1]  [,2] [,3]  [,4]  [,5]
> [1,]    1.00 -0.87 14.7  1.09  101
> [2,]    2.00 -0.61 13.6 -0.31  102
> [3,]    3.00 -0.03 15.2 -1.60  103
> [4,]    4.00  1.58 15.0 -0.19  104
> [5,]    5.00  0.75 14.8  0.32  105
>
> c) (ignoring "-" sign)
>       [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
> [1,]    1.0 -0.9   14  1.1  101
> [2,]    2.0 -0.6   14 -0.3  102
> [3,]    3.0 -0.0   15 -1.6  103
> [4,]    4.0  1.6   15 -0.2  104
> [5,]    5.0  0.8   15  0.3  105
>
> c) (counting the  "-" sign)
>       [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
> [1,]    1.0   -1   14  1.1  101
> [2,]    2.0   -1   14   -0  102
> [3,]    3.0   -0   15   -2  103
> [4,]    4.0  1.6   15   -0  104
> [5,]    5.0  0.8   15  0.3  105
>
>
> I would appreciate a solution for any of those options.
>
> Best regards,
> Ales
>
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