Dear Uwe, > Actually I expected > > format(10000, big.mark = "\\\\,") > > to work (you need to double excape the backslashes here).
this I also tried :-) > > But the two characters are reversed due to the code in prettyNum(). Not sure > if it is expected, but the user was probably not expected to use more than a > single character as the big.mark. > > You can get it right by reversing as in: > > format(10000, big.mark = ",\\\\") but then I get "10\\,000" instead of "10\,000". The reason why I want to have "10\,000" is for use in LaTeX. If I produce the format "10\\,000" in a table, then xtable gives me 10$\backslash$,000 for the corresponding cell entry, which is wrong :-(. Do you know a trick for that? Cheers, Marius > > > Uwe Ligges > > > > > On 30.12.2010 19:32, Marius Hofert wrote: >> Hi, >> >> why does format(10000, big.mark = "\\,") not give me "10\,000"? How can I >> get this kind of "big.mark"? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Marius >> ______________________________________________ >> 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.
