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

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yes this is exactly what I want and it works. thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: "JS Huang" [js.huang at protective.com]
Date: 02/26/2015 03:22 AM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] How many digits are there in left of dot of 0.0001 ?

Hi,

  To get the number of digits to the right of decimal point: 
nchar(format(a,scientific=FALSE))-(trunc(log10(max(1,trunc(abs(a)))))+1) -1.  

  The part (trunc(log10(max(1,trunc(abs(a)))))+1) is the number of digits to
the left of decimal.  At the end, subtract 1 for the decimal point.

  Negative number needs more work.

> options(digits=10)
> a <- 0.0001
> nchar(format(a,scientific=FALSE))-(trunc(log10(max(1,trunc(abs(a)))))+1)
> -1
[1] 4
> a <- 999.123456
> nchar(format(a,scientific=FALSE))-(trunc(log10(max(1,trunc(abs(a)))))+1)
> -1
[1] 6



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