[R] Scientific notation?

[Yves Gauvreau]

Just what I was looking for.

Many thanks

Yves Gauvreau
B.E.F.P. Universite du Quebec a Montreal
cyg at sympatico.ca

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Martin Maechler [mailto:maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch]
> Envoye : Wednesday, January 17, 2001 12:30 PM
> A : Yves Gauvreau
> Cc : R-help at lists. R-project. org
> Objet : Re: [R] Scientific notation?
> 
> 
> >>>>> "Yves" == Yves Gauvreau <cyg at sympatico.ca> writes:
> 
>     Yves> Hi, Would there be a function and/or some options to force R to
>     Yves> write a value of say 1.0e-4 as "0.0001"? More 
> specifically I want
>     Yves> to use R to write ASCII file(s) for other programs to read and
>     Yves> some of these programs don't know how to deal numbers in
>     Yves> scientific notation or have a different convention.
> 
> Probably variations of these will solve your problem :
> 
> > formatC(pi * 10^(-7:-3), format = "f", digits = 10)
> [1] "0.0000003142" "0.0000031416" "0.0000314159" "0.0003141593" 
> "0.0031415927"
> 
> > formatC(pi * 10^(-7:-3), format = "fg", digits = 10)
> [1] "0.0000003141592654" "0.000003141592654"  "0.00003141592654"  
> [4] "0.0003141592654"    "0.003141592654"    
> 
> 
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