On 30/01/2015 8:17 AM, Knut Krueger wrote:
Am 30.01.2015 um 12:51 schrieb Duncan Murdoch:
> You are mixing up formatting with storage. Floating point numbers will
> be displayed without decimals if they are close enough to whole numbers.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
Ok, I am talking from display
data = matrix(c(1:16),nrow=4,ncol=4) #create matrix
data[4,] = data[4,]/3
data[,4] = data[,4]/3
#why is it displayed without decimals here:
data[1:3,1:3]
#and why is data[1:3,1:3] diplayed with 2 decimals here
data
and what could be the solution to display data[1:3,1:3] part when data
is used without decimals, if there are no
The default formatting for matrices uses the same number of decimal
places for all entries in a column. In the first case, none needed any
decimals to get options("digits") worth of precision, so none were
displayed. In the second case, entries in row 4 need 6 decimal places
(on my system, maybe differently on yours) in columns 1, 2, and 4, so
all values in those columns are displayed with 6 decimal places.
If you want formatting to work differently, you can write your own. For
example, if you define
myprint <- function(x, ...) {
result <- sub("[.][0]+", "", format.default(x, ...))
print(noquote(result))
}
then
myprint(data)
might do what you want.
Duncan Murdoch
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