[R] Numeric formatting question

Dieter Menne dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de
Tue Nov 10 14:29:03 CET 2009




Michael Pearmain-2 wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have am using Sweave and the \Sexpr{} to place some numeric variables in
> my tex document. I want to format the number prior to entry so they read
> slightly more elegantly.
> Say i have the following numbers
> x <- 0.00487324
> y <- 0.000000432
> z <- 0.567
> 
> I would like to have the numbers displayed as follows
> 
> x1 <- 0.0049
> y1 <- 0.00000043
> z1 <- 0.57
> 
> 

\Sexpr{round(x,2)}

Dieter


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