[R] Format printing with R

Jeff Newmiller jdnewm|| @end|ng |rom dcn@d@v|@@c@@u@
Mon Nov 21 22:29:19 CET 2022


For better reproducibility, use dput to share data. A matrix and a data frame look similar, but they can act differently.

On November 21, 2022 1:09:55 PM PST, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon using gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Steven,
>I thought that the problem might be in the two large numbers, but
>using a subset (I didn't want to edit out all the line numbers), I get
>what I expected:
>
>sydf<-read.table(text="Mean   Std.dev
> [1,]  0.3107966  0.462820
> [2,]  0.1880302  0.390736
> [3,] 45.3185794 16.313635
> [4,]  0.5066370  0.499956
> [5,]  0.4933630  0.499956
> [6,]  0.7029150  0.456974
> [7,]  0.2970850  0.456974
> [8,]  0.7967066  0.402449
> [9,]  0.2032934  0.402449",
>stringsAsFactors=FALSE,header=TRUE)
>> print(sydf,digits=2)
>     Mean Std.dev
>[1,]  0.31    0.46
>[2,]  0.19    0.39
>[3,] 45.32   16.31
>[4,]  0.51    0.50
>[5,]  0.49    0.50
>[6,]  0.70    0.46
>[7,]  0.30    0.46
>[8,]  0.80    0.40
>[9,]  0.20    0.40
>
>I don't think it is your use of "cbind", but I didn't edit out Mean
>and Std.dev and try it.
>
>Jim
>
>On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 7:41 AM Steven T. Yen via R-help
><r-help using r-project.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, I have two variables with 86 observations each. Below I print with
>> the print command with digit=2. But, I am getting three decimal places
>> for my first variable and two for the second. Please help. Thanks.
>>
>>  > cbind(Mean,Std.dev)
>>              Mean   Std.dev
>>   [1,]  0.3107966  0.462820
>>   [2,]  0.1880302  0.390736
>>   [3,] 45.3185794 16.313635
>>   [4,]  0.5066370  0.499956
>>   [5,]  0.4933630  0.499956
>>   [6,]  0.7029150  0.456974
>>   [7,]  0.2970850  0.456974
>>   [8,]  0.7967066  0.402449
>>   [9,]  0.2032934  0.402449
>> [10,]  0.6582301  0.474303
>> [11,]  0.3417699  0.474303
>> [12,]  0.7262913  0.445861
>> [13,]  0.2737087  0.445861
>> [14,]  0.6415484  0.479546
>> [15,]  0.3584516  0.479546
>> [16,]  0.9110264  0.284706
>> [17,]  0.0889736  0.284706
>> [18,]  0.5211453  0.499553
>> [19,]  0.4788547  0.499553
>> [20,]  0.5481055  0.497680
>> [21,]  0.4518945  0.497680
>> [22,]  0.9135090  0.281088
>> [23,]  0.0864910  0.281088
>> [24,]  0.8727269  0.333279
>> [25,]  0.1272731  0.333279
>> [26,]  0.1015717  0.302084
>> [27,]  0.6043692  0.488986
>> [28,]  0.2940592  0.455619
>> [29,]  0.2735274  0.445769
>> [30,]  0.3777426  0.484823
>> [31,]  0.3487300  0.476568
>> [32,]  0.1603127  0.366896
>> [33,]  0.1723783  0.377709
>> [34,]  0.1230961  0.328547
>> [35,]  0.1779381  0.382461
>> [36,]  0.0964334  0.295185
>> [37,]  0.1584698  0.365181
>> [38,]  0.1113717  0.314592
>> [39,]  0.3349813  0.471984
>> [40,]  0.4081109  0.491484
>> [41,]  0.2569078  0.436928
>> [42,]  0.1034356  0.304527
>> [43,]  0.6741233  0.468701
>> [44,]  0.1254412  0.331218
>> [45,]  0.0969999  0.295958
>> [46,]  0.0587457  0.235148
>> [47,]  0.4401115  0.496400
>> [48,]  0.4689114  0.499033
>> [49,]  0.0322313  0.176614
>> [50,]  0.5907618  0.491693
>> [51,]  0.1591195  0.365787
>> [52,]  0.1132923  0.316950
>> [53,]  0.1124207  0.315883
>> [54,]  0.0244058  0.154305
>> [55,]  0.7058787  0.455647
>> [56,]  0.2941213  0.455647
>> [57,]  0.0746892  0.262889
>> [58,]  0.4749110  0.499370
>> [59,]  0.3471837  0.476075
>> [60,]  0.0435036  0.203988
>> [61,]  0.0597126  0.236954
>> [62,]  0.0478775  0.213507
>> [63,]  0.1152615  0.319337
>> [64,]  0.2074968  0.405514
>> [65,]  0.2440626  0.429530
>> [66,]  0.1605995  0.367161
>> [67,]  0.0804598  0.272004
>> [68,]  0.1442422  0.351335
>> [69,]  0.3443231  0.475147
>> [70,]  0.4280560  0.494797
>> [71,]  0.0528221  0.223678
>> [72,]  0.0805222  0.272100
>> [73,]  0.0457169  0.208870
>> [74,]  0.0485596  0.214945
>> [75,]  0.1333443  0.339946
>> [76,]  0.0932917  0.290841
>> [77,]  0.0653987  0.247228
>> [78,]  0.0573934  0.232593
>> [79,]  0.1399086  0.346892
>> [80,]  0.0887337  0.284359
>> [81,]  0.0984479  0.297919
>> [82,]  0.0914421  0.288237
>> [83,]  0.1155505  0.319685
>> [84,]  0.1363764  0.343188
>> [85,]  0.1134570  0.317151
>> [86,]  1.2985286  0.739096
>>  > print(cbind(Mean,Std.dev),digits=2)
>>          Mean Std.dev
>>   [1,]  0.311    0.46
>>   [2,]  0.188    0.39
>>   [3,] 45.319   16.31
>>   [4,]  0.507    0.50
>>   [5,]  0.493    0.50
>>   [6,]  0.703    0.46
>>   [7,]  0.297    0.46
>>   [8,]  0.797    0.40
>>   [9,]  0.203    0.40
>> [10,]  0.658    0.47
>> [11,]  0.342    0.47
>> [12,]  0.726    0.45
>> [13,]  0.274    0.45
>> [14,]  0.642    0.48
>> [15,]  0.358    0.48
>> [16,]  0.911    0.28
>> [17,]  0.089    0.28
>> [18,]  0.521    0.50
>> [19,]  0.479    0.50
>> [20,]  0.548    0.50
>> [21,]  0.452    0.50
>> [22,]  0.914    0.28
>> [23,]  0.086    0.28
>> [24,]  0.873    0.33
>> [25,]  0.127    0.33
>> [26,]  0.102    0.30
>> [27,]  0.604    0.49
>> [28,]  0.294    0.46
>> [29,]  0.274    0.45
>> [30,]  0.378    0.48
>> [31,]  0.349    0.48
>> [32,]  0.160    0.37
>> [33,]  0.172    0.38
>> [34,]  0.123    0.33
>> [35,]  0.178    0.38
>> [36,]  0.096    0.30
>> [37,]  0.158    0.37
>> [38,]  0.111    0.31
>> [39,]  0.335    0.47
>> [40,]  0.408    0.49
>> [41,]  0.257    0.44
>> [42,]  0.103    0.30
>> [43,]  0.674    0.47
>> [44,]  0.125    0.33
>> [45,]  0.097    0.30
>> [46,]  0.059    0.24
>> [47,]  0.440    0.50
>> [48,]  0.469    0.50
>> [49,]  0.032    0.18
>> [50,]  0.591    0.49
>> [51,]  0.159    0.37
>> [52,]  0.113    0.32
>> [53,]  0.112    0.32
>> [54,]  0.024    0.15
>> [55,]  0.706    0.46
>> [56,]  0.294    0.46
>> [57,]  0.075    0.26
>> [58,]  0.475    0.50
>> [59,]  0.347    0.48
>> [60,]  0.044    0.20
>> [61,]  0.060    0.24
>> [62,]  0.048    0.21
>> [63,]  0.115    0.32
>> [64,]  0.207    0.41
>> [65,]  0.244    0.43
>> [66,]  0.161    0.37
>> [67,]  0.080    0.27
>> [68,]  0.144    0.35
>> [69,]  0.344    0.48
>> [70,]  0.428    0.49
>> [71,]  0.053    0.22
>> [72,]  0.081    0.27
>> [73,]  0.046    0.21
>> [74,]  0.049    0.21
>> [75,]  0.133    0.34
>> [76,]  0.093    0.29
>> [77,]  0.065    0.25
>> [78,]  0.057    0.23
>> [79,]  0.140    0.35
>> [80,]  0.089    0.28
>> [81,]  0.098    0.30
>> [82,]  0.091    0.29
>> [83,]  0.116    0.32
>> [84,]  0.136    0.34
>> [85,]  0.113    0.32
>> [86,]  1.299    0.74
>>  >
>>
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