Ahh... The exponent of your number in scientific notation, which you can obtain using:
format(a.number, scientific=TRUE) Hope that helps.. -- H On 25 February 2015 at 18:43, ce <zadi...@excite.com> wrote: > > Sorry I meant right. I want to do it R of course. result should be 4 > naturally. On the left answer I want would be 1 , > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Hasan Diwan" [hasan.di...@gmail.com] > Date: 02/25/2015 09:28 PM > To: "R Project Help" <r-help@r-project.org> > Subject: Re: [R] How many digits are there in left of dot of 0.0001 ? > > On 25 February 2015 at 17:55, ce <zadi...@excite.com> wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > I would like to count how many digits are there on the left of a the dot > > of a numeric variable > > > > Left? An infinite number... What does this have to do with R, though? -- H > > > > > a=0.0001 > > > > thanks > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > 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. > > > > > > -- > OpenPGP: https://hasan.d8u.us/gpg.key > Sent from my mobile device > Envoyé de mon portable > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 > -- OpenPGP: https://hasan.d8u.us/gpg.key Sent from my mobile device Envoyé de mon portable [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
