[R] R number output format

[jim holtman]

?formatC

> formatC(.000000012, format='fg')
[1] "0.000000012"
>


also

?sprintf

> sprintf("%.10f", 0.0000000012)
[1] "0.0000000012"
>


On 9/10/06, Philip He <hydinghua at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to save the number 0.0000012 to a file just as it appears, but when
> I dput(0.0000012, "t.txt"), I got 1.2e-06, NOT 0.0000012.
> Anybody knows how I can do this?
>
> > 0.0000012
> [1] 1.2e-06
>
> > as.character(0.0000012)
> [1] "1.2e-06"
>
> > dput(0.0000012, "t.txt")
>
>
> Thanks.
>
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