On 23/06/2013 10:54, Søren Højsgaard wrote:
Dear all,
Given a number
x<-1.234e12
is there a built-in function for extracting 1.234 and 12 ?
No, because that is not how the number is stored (and in fact the value
stored is a binary fraction with a slightly different value).
The following "hack" seems clumpsy:
format() is doing a lot of work to produce a decimal approximation to
'x', including choosing the precision.
It is not clear what you want: if you merely want to express x as a*10^b
for 1 <= a < 10 then
b <- floor(log10(x))
a <- x/10^b
does the job (but might get values of a very slightly less than 1 or
above 10, so if you care this might need checking and refinement).
a<-strsplit(format(x, scientific=T),"e")[[1]]
a
[1] "1.234" "+12"
as.numeric(a[1])
[1] 1.234
as.integer(a[2])
[1] 12
Regards
Søren
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