Another alternative:

> format(.0000012, scientific=FALSE)
[1] "0.0000012"

On 10/09/06, jim holtman <jholtman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ?formatC
>
> > formatC(.000000012, format='fg')
> [1] "0.000000012"
> >
>
>
> also
>
> ?sprintf
>
> > sprintf("%.10f", 0.0000000012)
> [1] "0.0000000012"
> >
>
>
> On 9/10/06, Philip He <hydinghua@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'd like to save the number 0.0000012 to a file just as it appears, but
> when
> > I dput(0.0000012, "t.txt"), I got 1.2e-06, NOT 0.0000012.
> > Anybody knows how I can do this?
> >
> > > 0.0000012
> > [1] 1.2e-06
> >
> > > as.character(0.0000012)
> > [1] "1.2e-06"
> >
> > > dput(0.0000012, "t.txt")
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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>
>
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>
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