On 17-May-09 22:03:19, Daniel Nordlund wrote: > When I type the following, I get results different from what I > expected. > >> sprintf('%a',3) > [1] "0x1.8" > > Shouldn't the result be > > [1] "0x1.8p+2"
Well, not "p+2" but "p+1" (0x1.8 = 1.1000[2] ; *2 = 11.000[2] = 3[10]) ; however, I get: sprintf('%a',3) # [1] "0x1.8p+1" which is indeed correct. R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17) ## Same as yours platform i486-pc-linux-gnu ## Different from yours ... which perhaps suggests that there may be a mis-compilation in the Windows version. Ted. > I read through the help ?sprintf and didn't find anything that changed > my expectation. What am I misunderstanding? I am using R-2.9.0 binary > from CRAN on Windows XP Pro, and my session info is > > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17) > i386-pc-mingw32 > > locale: > LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United > States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United > States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >> > > Thanks for any enlightenment. > > Dan > > Daniel Nordlund > Bothell, WA USA > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 17-May-09 Time: 23:32:19 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.