Can you give a working example of what is happening and explain what is x? With a simple x vector of x <- rnorm(20, 5, 2) I don't get anything like what you seem to be getting.
My code =================================================== x <- rnorm(20, 5, 2) table<-data.frame(x, scientific=F, digits=4) table =================================================== The numbers on the left are simply line numbers that are automatically printed when you are printing a dataframe to the screen. I don't see any way to supress them for a simple command such as your table You might want to have a look at print and print.default to address the digits problem By the way, table is a reserved word in R and probably should not be used as a name for a data.frame. --- cvandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > I'm an R newbie and this should be a trivial > problem, but I can't make it > work and cannot find what I'm doing wrong in the > literature. > I entered the the command: > table<-data.frame(x, scientific=F, digits=4) > table > This prints a column of x with 16 useless decimal > places after the decimal > point. Also, it prints an unwanted index number > (1-20) in the left column. > How do I get rid of the index column and how do I > control the number of > decimal places? > Thanks in advance. > CHV > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/numeric-format-tp15700452p15700452.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org 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. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.