On 25/03/2014 7:17 AM, Pavneet Arora wrote:
Hello All,
I am new in R, so please excuse the basic questions.
But how do you change the number of digits to be displayed?
I have done the following, hoping I will get 4 decimal places in my
answer:
vars <- var(cbind(Sepal.l,Sepal.w,Petal.l,Petal.w))
print(vars,digits=4)
But as seen below from the output, that is not the case
> print(vars,digits=4)
Sepal.l Sepal.w Petal.l Petal.w
Sepal.l 0.68569 -0.04074 1.2743 0.5163
Sepal.w -0.04074 0.19363 -0.3287 -0.1212
Petal.l 1.27432 -0.32873 3.1163 1.2956
Petal.w 0.51627 -0.12124 1.2956 0.5810
How come the Sepal.l and Sepal.w does not come with only 4 decimal places.
R interprets "digits=4" as asking for 4 significant digits. The value
0.04074 needs 5 decimal places to get 4 significant digits. R will print
all numbers in a column with a consistent number of decimal places, so
all values get 5.
Can someone tell me where I am going wrong?
Also if I use the "options(digits=4)"- How do I make it to go back to
Normal or default, which is 7 in this case.?
Save it when you change it, and restore it afterwards, e.g.
saveopts <- options(digits=4)
... do some stuff ...
options(saveopts)
This doesn't restore the default, it restores the previous value, but
that's usually what you want. If you really want to restore the default,
then save it at the very beginning of your session, e.g.
defaultopts <- options() # save all options
... do some stuff ...
options(defaultopts) # restore all options
options(defaultopts["digits"]) # restore just the digits setting
Duncan Murdoch
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