[R] customizing the number of decimal places in xtable

[Jeff Newmiller]

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On September 17, 2018 7:24:37 PM PDT, Ogbos Okike <giftedlife2014 using gmail.com> wrote:
>Dear Volunteers,
>
>I have a table involving many decimal places:
>2005-01-04 -2.13339817688037
>2005-01-19 -6.86312349695117
>2005-01-22 -4.33662370554386
>2005-02-10 -1.40789214441639
>2005-02-13 -1.1334121785854
>2005-02-19 -1.28411233010119
>2005-05-09 -1.6895978161324
>2005-05-16 -3.07664523496947
>2005-06-17 -1.69904491217129
>2005-07-17 -3.44289318667434
>2005-08-07 -2.29676435700659
>2005-08-10 -1.08915071542227
>2005-08-24 -1.8244123081697
>2005-09-13 -4.57899147546373
>2005-09-15 -3.96591895962343
> I used xtable to covert this to form of latex table.
>
>The result I have is:
>1 & 2005-01-04 & -2.13 \\
>  2 & 2005-01-19 & -6.86 \\
>  3 & 2005-01-22 & -4.34 \\
>  4 & 2005-02-10 & -1.41 \\
>  5 & 2005-02-13 & -1.13 \\
>  6 & 2005-02-19 & -1.28 \\
>  7 & 2005-05-09 & -1.69 \\
>  8 & 2005-05-16 & -3.08 \\
>  9 & 2005-06-17 & -1.70 \\
>  10 & 2005-07-17 & -3.44 \\
>  11 & 2005-08-07 & -2.30 \\
>  12 & 2005-08-10 & -1.09 \\
>  13 & 2005-08-24 & -1.82 \\
>  14 & 2005-09-13 & -4.58 \\
>  15 & 2005-09-15 & -3.97 \\.
>
>It has truncated the long decimal places. Since it is not want I want,
>I
>have to copy from the original table and place into xtable.
>
>Can you please tell me how to customize the xtable so that I will be
>responsible for the number of decimal places it displays.
>
>Many thanks for your precious time.
>
>Warmest regards
>Ogbos
>
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