On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Jean V Adams <jvad...@usgs.gov> wrote: > > As it says in > > ?format > > the digits argument specifies "... how many significant digits are to be > used ... enough decimal places will be used so that the smallest (in > magnitude) number has this many significant digits ..." > > In your example, the last value in column "a" is 0.06348058 which is written > as 0.063 to two significant digits. > I did inspect the help page (several times), but the "significant digits" formulation was a little too cryptic to me. Now I understand better, thanks.
> There is no way (that I know of) to make the format() function do the same > sort of thing as round(). > > If digits won't meet your needs, you could try something like this > > data.frame(lapply(x, function(y) if(is.numeric(y)) round(y, 2) else y)) > Quite awkward, but this is more or less what I was looking for. Again, thanks. Regards Liviu ______________________________________________ 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.
