[R] Forcing "virtual" digits

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Sat Dec 29 03:49:43 CET 2007


?sprintf

x <- 33
plot(0, main=sprintf("Value = %.1f", x))

On Dec 28, 2007 5:13 PM, Thomas Schwander <thomas_schwander at web.de> wrote:
> Hi there,
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> I'm using XP with R 2.6.1
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> I've got the following question: Is there a way to force "virtual" digits?
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> I mean: In the external csv-file, I read in some numbers, e.g. "33" which is
> written into a variable.
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> I want to add this variable into a plot with an additional digit: "33.0".
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> I know, that this is a kind of cheating, because the number was not measured
> as precisely, but it looks better in the graph.
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> Any ideas?
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> Thanks for your help,
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> Thomas
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