[R] dput

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Thu, 4 May 2000, Song Qian wrote:

> I have two questions regarding the use of function
> dput().  I am using R (v1.0.1) to create input files
> for WinBUGS.
> 
> First, I would like to have the output data round to
> the specified decimal places.  I used function
> round().  However, occasionally, dput() will write
> 0.0005 as 5e-4.  Is there a way to correct this?

What need `correct'ion? They are the same thing!

> Second, when writing a matrix, the resulting output is
> in the form:
> 
> structure(c(0, 1, ...), .Dim=c(2,3))
> 
> Is it possible to have the same output format as in 
> Splus:
> 
> structure(.Data=c(0, 1, ...), .Dim=c(2,3))

Not easily.

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