[R] problems in converting numeric to character

[Adrian Dușa]

Does this helps?

> formatC(x, digits = 1, format = "f")
[1] "1.0" "2.0" "2.0" "2.1"


On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:08 PM 刘瑞阳 <ruiyangliu94 using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am having trouble converting numeric to characters in the format I
> desire. To be more specific, I have a number of numeric as follows:
>
> x<-c(1.0,2.0,2.00,2.1)
> I want to convert them to characters so that the out put would be
> c(“1.0”,”2.0”,”2.00”,”2.1”).
>
> However, I used as.character(x) and the output is:
> "1"   "2"   "2"   “2.1"
>
> The decimals are removed if the numeric ends with “.0”. Is there a way to
> circumvent this problem?
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ruiyang Liu
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