[R] How many digits are there in left of dot of 0.0001 ?

[Hasan Diwan]

Ahh... The exponent of your number in scientific notation, which you can
obtain using:

format(a.number, scientific=TRUE)

Hope that helps.. -- H

On 25 February 2015 at 18:43, ce <zadig_1 at excite.com> wrote:

>
> Sorry I meant right. I want to do it R of course. result should be 4
> naturally. On the left answer I want would be 1 ,
>
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> From: "Hasan Diwan" [hasan.diwan at gmail.com]
> Date: 02/25/2015 09:28 PM
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> Subject: Re: [R] How many digits are there in left of dot of 0.0001 ?
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> On 25 February 2015 at 17:55, ce <zadig_1 at excite.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I would like to count how many digits are there on the left of a the dot
> > of a numeric variable
> >
>
> Left? An infinite number... What does this have to do with R, though? -- H
>
> >
> > a=0.0001
> >
> > thanks
> >
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