Should both parts of a complex number be printed
to the same precision? The imaginary part of 0
looks a bit odd when log10(real/imag) >=~ getOption("digits"),
but I'm not sure it is awful. Some people might
expect the same number of significant digits in the
two parts.
> 1e7+4i
[1] 10000000+0i
> 1e7+5i
[1] 10000000+0i
> 1e10 + 1000i
[1] 1e+10+0e+00i
> getOption("digits")
[1] 7
> options(digits=4)
> 1e4+4i
[1] 10000+0i
> 1e7+1000i
[1] 10000000+0i
> version
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platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch i386
os mingw32
system i386, mingw32
status Under development (unstable)
major 2
minor 11.0
year 2010
month 03
day 07
svn rev 51225
language R
version.string R version 2.11.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-03-07
r51225)
Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
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