On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 05:36:35PM +0800, Luis Felipe Parra wrote: > Hello. I would like to know if there exists in R a function like trunc but > where i can choose how many decimal places can I stay with in the number I > have (sort of the same as the trunc function in excel). I would like, for > example if I have the number 0.974678 and I choose to stay with 3 decimal > places to have as ouput 0.974.
Hello: Try the following trunc.dig <- function(x, digits) trunc(x*10^digits)/10^digits trunc.dig(0.974678, 3) [1] 0.974 trunc.dig(10.974999, 3) [1] 10.974 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.
