R Users: Can anyone please help me with the following: I'm unclear as to how to get format to do what I want. I've tried the following and get unexpected results.
Input..... val<-321.6 format(val, digits=1) format(val, digits=2) format(val, digits=3) format(val, digits=4) format(val, digits=5) Output.... [1] "322" [1] "322" [1] "322" [1] "321.6" [1] "321.6" Whereas I would expect to get... [1] "300" [1] "320" [1] "322" [1] "321.6" [1] "321.60" since "digits" is defined as the number of "significant digits". The number 321.6 shown to 1 significant digit should be 300., not 322 which is 3 significant digits! Likewise for the other cases. Can anyone explain what format() is doing? Regards, Michael ______________________________________________ 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.
