No no, I don't want scientific , I want really the number 4 in a variable or cut the 4 out of 1e-04 . I can do it with sub what difficulty is to cut how many characters , one or two
-----Original Message----- From: "Hasan Diwan" [hasan.di...@gmail.com] Date: 02/25/2015 09:55 PM To: "ce" <zadi...@excite.com> CC: "R Project Help" <r-help@r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R] How many digits are there in left of dot of 0.0001 ? 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 ______________________________________________ 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.
