In case anyone has the same problem and wants a solution, here is mine
(albeit with some horrible hacks):
"my.signif" <- function(vec, digits=6) {
# get correct number of significant figures
vec = signif(vec, digits)
# now get correct number of trailing zeros by calling sprintf and
specifying
# the correct number of decimal places seperately for each
number
om = floor(log10(abs(vec))) # order of magnitude
dp = digits-om-1 # no. decimal points
dp[which(dp<0)] = 0 # use zero when dp is negative
for(i in 1:length(vec)) {
if(is.na(vec[i])) { next }
vec[i] = sprintf(paste("%.",dp[i],"f", sep=""), vec[i])
}
return(vec)
}
On Aug 14, 3:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am not sure that format solves the problem (although again I may
> well be missing something)
>
> # trailing zeros on large numbers
> >format(vec, digits=4, scientific=F)
> [1] " 0.8000" " 123.4567" " 0.1235" " 7.6543"
> "7654321.0000"
>
> # misses trailing zeros
> > format(vec[1], digits=4, scientific=F)
> [1] "0.8"
>
> I guess I could resort to writing a routine that called format with
> different arguments depending on the magnitude of each number in the
> vector, but I was hoping for a cleaner solution. Any thoughts?
>
> On 14 Aug 2008, at 14:57, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>
>
> > I think you missed the function called 'format'. R's internal print
> > routines (used by format) calculate the format passed to (C level)
> > sprintf based on the input, including 'digits'. Just make sure you
> > pass one number at a time to format() if you don't want a common
> > layout for all the numbers.
>
> > On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >> Hi everyone,
>
> >> I can't figure out how to format numbers to have a certain number
> >> of significant figures (as opposed to decimal places) without using
> >> scientific notation and including trailing zeros if necessary.
>
> >> e.g. I would like to achieve the following:
> >> 0.800001 ---> 0.8000
> >> 123.4567 ---> 123.4
> >> 0.1234567 ---> 0.1234
> >> 7.654321 ---> 7.654
> >> 7654321 ---> 7654000
>
> >> It seems like it should be simple, but I can't seem to do this
> >> using sprintf. Specifically, I get the following outputs:
>
> >>> vec = c(0.800001, 123.4567, 0.1234567, 7.654321, 7654321)
>
> >>> # this specifies precision after decimal point, rather than
> >>> significant figures
> >>> sprintf("%.4f", vec)
> >> [1] "0.8000" "123.4567" "0.1235" "7.6543"
> >> "7654321.0000"
>
> >>> # uses scientific notation, but significant figures are correct
> >>> sprintf("%.3e", vec)
> >> [1] "8.000e-01" "1.235e+02" "1.235e-01" "7.654e+00" "7.654e+06"
>
> >>> # correct number of significant figures, and without scientific
> >>> notation, but has trailing zeros on large numbers
> >>> sprintf("%.4f", sprintf("%.3e", vec))
> >> [1] "0.8000" "123.5000" "0.1235" "7.6540"
> >> "7654000.0000"
>
> >> Am I missing something obvious and can someone help me?
>
> >> Many thanks
>
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> > --
> > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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