[R] write.table -- maintain decimal places
Jim Moon
moonja at ohsu.edu
Wed Jan 26 17:56:54 CET 2011
I am using:
"R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)"
It is good to know that it works in 2.12.1
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Ehlers [mailto:ehlers at ucalgary.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:57 PM
To: Jim Moon
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] write.table -- maintain decimal places
On 2011-01-25 17:22, Jim Moon wrote:
> Thank you for the response, Peter.
>
> The approach:
> write.table(format(df, drop0trailing=FALSE),file='df.txt',quote=F,sep='\t',row.names=F)
> surprisingly still results in some loss of trailing 0's.
>
What version of R?
I'm using R version 2.12.1 Patched (2010-12-27 r53883)
and it works for me.
Peter Ehlers
> df:
> EFFECT2 PVALUE
> 1 0.023 0.88080
> 2 -0.260 0.08641
> 3 -0.114 0.45200
>
> df.txt:
> EFFECT2 PVALUE
> 0.023 8.808e-01
> -0.26 8.641e-02
> -0.114 4.520e-01
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Ehlers [mailto:ehlers at ucalgary.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:09 PM
> To: Jim Moon
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] write.table -- maintain decimal places
>
> On 2011-01-25 16:16, Jim Moon wrote:
>> Hello, All,
>>
>> How can I maintain the decimal places when using write.table()?
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> e.g.
>>
>> df:
>> EFFECT2 PVALUE
>> 1 0.023 0.88080
>> 2 -0.260 0.08641
>> 3 -0.114 0.45200
>>
>> write.table(df,file='df.txt',quote=F,sep='\t',row.names=F)
>
> write.table(format(df, drop0trailing=FALSE), ....)
>
> Peter Ehlers
>
>>
>>
>> df.txt:
>> EFFECT2 PVALUE
>> 0.023 0.8808
>> -0.26 0.08641
>> -0.114 0.452
>>
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