[Rd] [R] Suppressing scientific notation on plot axis tick labels (PR#14202)

[murdoch at stats.uwo.ca]

On 02/02/2010 6:20 AM, Dimitri Shvorob wrote:
> Ruben Roa has kindly suggested using 'scipen' option - cf.
> 
>> fixed notation will be preferred unless it is more than ‘scipen’ digits
>> wider.
> 
> However, 
> 
> options(scipen = 50)
> x  = c(1e7, 2e7)
> barplot(x) 
> 
> still does not produce the desired result.

This is strange.  I see what you describe the first time through, but
if I print the option I get the non-scientific labels on the second plot:

options(scipen = 50)
x  = c(1e7, 2e7)
barplot(x)
options("scipen")
barplot(x)

Looks like some sort of caching bug to me.  I don't think I'll have time 
to track this down; this is a crazy week.  I see the same thing in 
R-devel as in 2.10.1.

Duncan Murdoch

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  arch = i386
  os = mingw32
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  status =
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  minor = 10.1
  year = 2009
  month = 12
  day = 14
  svn rev = 50720
  language = R
  version.string = R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)

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