Also look at the zapsmall function. A useful but often overlooked tool. On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Petr Savicky <savi...@cs.cas.cz> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:17:09AM +0100, Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci wrote: >> Dear List, >> >> I will appreciate any advice regarding how to convert the following numbers >> [I got in return by taxondive()] in numeric integers without the e.g. >> 6.4836e+01 >> abbreviations. >> Thank you very much in advance, >> >> Gian >> >> > taxa_dive >> Species Delta Delta* Lambda+ Delta+ S >> Delta+ >> Nat1 5.0000e+00 6.4836e+01 9.5412e+01 6.7753e+02 8.7398e+01 >> 436.99 >> Nat2 2.0000e+00 4.0747e+01 1.0000e+02 0.0000e+00 1.0000e+02 >> 200.00 >> Nat3 3.0000e+00 4.5381e+01 7.7652e+01 2.8075e+02 8.8152e+01 >> 264.46 >> .... > > Hi. > > The exponential format was used probably due to some small > numbers. For example > > tst <- rbind( > c( 5.0000e+00, 6.4836e+01, 9.5412e+01, 6.7753e+02, 8.7398e+01, 436.99), > c( 2.0000e+00, 4.0747e+01, 1.0000e+02, 0.0000e+00, 1.0000e+02, 200.00), > c( 3.0000e+00, 4.5381e+01, 7.7652e+01, 2.8075e+02, 8.8152e+01, 264.46), > c( 1e-8, 1e-8, 1e-8, 1e-8, 1e-8, 1 )) > > tst > > [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] > [1,] 5e+00 6.4836e+01 9.5412e+01 6.7753e+02 8.7398e+01 436.99 > [2,] 2e+00 4.0747e+01 1.0000e+02 0.0000e+00 1.0000e+02 200.00 > [3,] 3e+00 4.5381e+01 7.7652e+01 2.8075e+02 8.8152e+01 264.46 > [4,] 1e-08 1.0000e-08 1.0000e-08 1.0000e-08 1.0000e-08 1.00 > > Try roudning the numbers, for example > > round(tst, digits=4) > > [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] > [1,] 5 64.836 95.412 677.53 87.398 436.99 > [2,] 2 40.747 100.000 0.00 100.000 200.00 > [3,] 3 45.381 77.652 280.75 88.152 264.46 > [4,] 0 0.000 0.000 0.00 0.000 1.00 > > Alternatively, options(scipen=20) forces a fixed point printing > with more digits. > > options(scipen=20) > tst > > [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] > [1,] 5.00000000 64.83600000 95.41200000 677.53000000 87.39800000 436.99 > [2,] 2.00000000 40.74700000 100.00000000 0.00000000 100.00000000 200.00 > [3,] 3.00000000 45.38100000 77.65200000 280.75000000 88.15200000 264.46 > [4,] 0.00000001 0.00000001 0.00000001 0.00000001 0.00000001 1.00 > > Hope this helps. > > Petr Savicky. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
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