Hello On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: > Well, as you say it's "View()" only, so why don't you just > "view" the result of > > something like > print(<data>, digits = 2) > Unfortunately print(..., digits = 2) suffers of the same deficiencies as format(..., digits = 2): they both display a "minimal number of _significant_ digits". What I would need, however, is to specify the "number of decimal places" as in round(..., digits = 2).
> (it does correspond to signif(), rather than round(), > but I think that that's more sensible anyway). > Although I do appreciate the rationale behind ?signif, for several subjective reasons---easiness of inspecting round()-ed data or aesthetics in printing round()-ed data in Sweave (as in "I cannot send format()-ed data to my advisor")---I would prefer to ?round my data. Is there any chance that 'base' would feature a round() function that doesn't stumble when processing non-numeric data (simply by ignoring it), or a format() or print() function with a 'round=NULL' argument? 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.
