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

[ce]

No no, I don't want scientific , I want really the number 4 in a variable or cut the 4 out of 1e-04 . I can do it with sub what difficulty is to cut how many characters , one or two 


-----Original Message-----
From: "Hasan Diwan" [hasan.diwan at gmail.com]
Date: 02/25/2015 09:55 PM
To: "ce" <zadig_1 at excite.com>
CC: "R Project Help" <r-help at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R] How many digits are there in left of dot of 0.0001 ?

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 ,

-----Original Message-----
From: "Hasan Diwan" [hasan.diwan at gmail.com]
Date: 02/25/2015 09:28 PM
To: "R Project Help" <r-help at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R] How many digits are there in left of dot of 0.0001 ?

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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