Many thanks to J.R. Lockwood and to Sundar Dorai-Raj for sending me their suggestions. I ended up using Sundar's function blended with a flavour of `zapsmall':
print.matrix2 <- function(x, zero = ".", digits=getOption("digits"), ...) { if (all(ina <- is.na(x))) return(x) if (length(digits) == 0) stop("invalid digits") mx <- max(abs(x[!ina])) x <- round(x, digits = if (mx > 0) max(0, digits - log10(mx)) else digits) zeros <- which(x == 0, arr.ind = TRUE) x[zeros] <- zero print(x, quote = FALSE, right = TRUE, ...) invisible() } Have a good weekend, Giovanni > > I'm pretty sure I've seen some examples of a function printing zero > entries in a matrix as dots, but I'm not able to find it now... > Any suggestions...? Thanks in advance. (Of course, I might have dreamt > of such a function...) > > Best, > Giovanni > -- __________________________________________________ [ ] [ Giovanni Petris [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Department of Mathematical Sciences ] [ University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, AR 72701 ] [ Ph: (479) 575-6324, 575-8630 (fax) ] [ http://definetti.uark.edu/~gpetris/ ] [__________________________________________________] ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help