[R] Pretty printing numbers

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

formatC(round(2189.745, 2), big.mark=",",format="f", drop0trailing = TRUE)

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Worik R <worikr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> formatC(round(2189.745, 2), big.mark=",",format="f")
> [1] "2,189.7400"
>
> Unfortunately this does not work
>
> Worik
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Peter Langfelder <
> peter.langfelder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Worik R <worikr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Friends
>> >
>> > I am trying to format a number to a string so 2189.745 goes to "2,189.35"
>> > and 309283.929 goes to "309,283.93"
>> >
>> > I have tried to use formatC(X, big.mark=",",drop0trailing=FALSE,
>> format="f")
>> > but it does not get the number of decimals correct.  Specifying digits
>> does
>> > not work as that is significant digits.  I could use a switch statement
>> > switching on the size of the number to be formated to set the digits
>> > parameter but that is complex and leaves me insecure that thre may be
>> other
>> > problems I have not uncovered.
>> >
>> > Is there a simple way of using library functions to insert big.marks and
>> get
>> > the number of trailing digits correct?  Perhaps some way of using
>> sprintf?
>> >
>>
>> Try this inserting a round() step before the final printing:
>>
>> x = 309283.929
>>
>> formatC(round(x, 2), big.mark=",",drop0trailing=TRUE, format="f")
>>
>> [1] "309,283.93"
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> > cheers
>> > Worik
>> >
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