Could you divide by your desired order of magnitude, use ceiling and then re-multiply?
Michael On Nov 1, 2011, at 3:42 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Nov 1, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Wendy wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have a list of numbers, e.g., X = c(60593.23, 71631.17, 75320.1), and want >> to round them so the output is Y = c(60000, 80000, 80000). > > Under what notion of "rounding" would that be the result? > >> I tried >> Y<-round(X,-4), but it gives me Y = c(60000, 70000, 80000). Do anybody know >> how to round up a number to 10^4? >> >> Thank you in advance. > > > -- > David Winsemius, MD > Heritage Laboratories > West Hartford, CT > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
