[R] Problems with displaying Regression Results

[Ben Bolker]

TMiller <thomas.mueller <at> student.unisg.ch> writes:

> 
> Hello guys
> 
> I have the following questions.
> I am currently running various regressions using the lm() command.
> As a result I get the following:

[snip]

(it's generally better to just cut-and-paste text into your
message ...)

> 
> My question is why R always adds the "e"s although for example they could
> just write -2610 as the upper left value which would be less confusing than
> with the "e"s?

  Because it tries to format all of the values within a column
consistently.  (See ?format for details, although that does not
answer your question directly.)