I very much suspect that you have a double and not an integer:
100000[1] 1e+05
as.integer(100000)
[1] 100000
so that is one answer: actually use an `integer vector' as you claim.
A second answer is in ?options, see `scipen'.
A third answer is to use sprintf() or formatC() to handle the conversion yourself.
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Firas Swidan wrote:
Hi, I am using the following command to print to a file (I omitted the file details):
cat( paste( paste(orientation, start, end, names,"\n"), paste(start, end, "exon\n"), sep=""))
where "orientation" and "names" are character vectors and "start" and "end" are integer vectors.
The problem is that R coerce the integer vectors to characters. In general, that works fine, but when one of the integer is 100000 (or has more 0's) then R prints it as 1e+05. This behavior causes a lot of trouble for the program reading R's output. This problem occur with paste, cat, and print (i.e. paste(100000)="1e+05" and so on).
I tried to change the "digit" option in "options()" but that did not help. Is is possible to change the behavior of the coercing or are there any work arounds?
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