[R] Scientific Notation

Francisco J. Zagmutt gerifalte28 at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 26 19:24:52 CEST 2007


I believe the argument to format is "scientific" i.e.
axis(2, at=at, labels=format(at, scientific=FALSE))

Best regards,

Francisco

Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 9/26/2007 11:24 AM, Jacques Wagnor wrote:
>> Dear List:
>>
>> Below is how I specify an axis:
>>
>> axis(2, at=c(0.00005, 0.0005))
>>
>> R displays the numbers in scientific notation.  What
>> argument/parameter should I use to tell R to display the numbers as
>> specified rather than in scientific notation?
> 
> Something like
> 
> axis(2, at=c(0.00005, 0.0005), labels=c("0.00005", "0.0005"))
> 
> is a way to be 100% sure of what will be displayed, but in this 
> particular instance,
> 
> at <- c(0.00005, 0.0005)
> axis(2, at=at, labels=format(at, sci=FALSE))
> 
> comes close, and there may be some other format spec that gets exactly 
> what you want.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
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