[R] Display a very low p-value

stephen sefick ssefick at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 20:43:05 CEST 2009


?options look at scipen

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Bhoom Suktitipat <suktitipat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello R-Help,
>
> I ran some analysis and were hit with some low Z-score. I tried to convert
> it to a p-value, however, it seems like the ceiling is around 1e-16.
>
>> 1-pnorm(8)
> [1] 6.661338e-16
>> 1-pnorm(9)
> [1] 0
>
> Do you have any suggestion how I can display a very low p-value in the form
> of scientific number format?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Regards,
> Bhoom
>
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