I meant that it demonstrates that the number is not an integer to the reader, regardless of how it is stored. In the reporting of measurements,
10 is interpreted as an integer, whereas 10. is interpreted as a real, rounded to two significant digits. Cheers Andrew On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 09:55:24PM -0500, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
