[R] format a matrix as fractions?

[Bert Gunter]

I find that google is usually a better search engine for R topics

Google on "R fractions".

(I got, e.g.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5046026/print-number-as-reduced-fraction-in-r
)

-- Cheers,

Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics
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is certainly not wisdom."
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On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Michael Friendly <friendly at yorku.ca> wrote:
> Is there some way to format a matrix of fractions as fractions?  I think
> I've seen this somewhere,
> but search on Rseek came up empty.
>
> Example:
>
>> outer(1/seq(1:3), 1/seq(1:3))
>           [,1]      [,2]      [,3]
> [1,] 1.0000000 0.5000000 0.3333333
> [2,] 0.5000000 0.2500000 0.1666667
> [3,] 0.3333333 0.1666667 0.1111111
>>
>
> should print as
>
>       1     1/2     1/3
>     1/2    1/4     1/6
>     1/3    1/6     1/9
>
> TIA
> -Michael
>
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