You must be thinking of some other language: > is.integer(1) [1] FALSE
On 11/17/06, Andrew Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nice solution. > > I believe that showing the decimal point is correct. It demonstrates > that the number is not an integer. > > Cheers > > Andrew > > On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 02:43:10PM -0800, RMan54 wrote: > > > > I think that I answered my own question. > > > > Since formatC is an implementation of the C-style formatting, I thought that > > a "#" as flag could work (for g and G conversions, trailing zeros are not > > removed from the result as they would otherwise be). Although not in the > > online help, this worked in R as follows: > > > > v <- c(9.6996, 99.99) > > formatC(v, digits=3, format="g", flag="#") > > > > result: > > > > "9.70" "100." > > > > The only small annoyance is that the decimal point is always shown. > > > > > > RMan54 wrote: > > > > > > This, for example: > > > > > > v <- c(9.6996, 99.99) > > > formatC(v, digits=3, format="g") > > > > > > shows: > > > > > > " 9.7" " 100" > > > > > > This is scientifically incorrect for the first number in the sense that I > > > like to show all 3 significant digits, including trailing zero's. > > > Is there a way that the first number would show as " 9.70"? > > > > > > By the way, can't use format() since it applies the same numbers of digits > > > after the decimal point for all numbers in the vector. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Rene > > > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > http://www.nabble.com/Numbers-with-correct-significant-digits-tf2657246.html#a7412389 > > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [email protected] 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. > > -- > Andrew Robinson > Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-9763 > University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 > http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~andrewpr > http://blogs.mbs.edu/fishing-in-the-bay/ > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. > ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
