Ha, beautiful example of how you should never use 'T' when you mean 'TRUE'.
Thanks /Henrik PS. The error message does indeed give you a great hint what the problem is. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:40 AM, <dirk.ja...@ise.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > Full_Name: Dirk Jacob > Version: R 2.8.1 and 2.9.1 > OS: Win XP > Submission from: (NULL) (153.96.32.62) > > > I want to convert numbers to strings > like: >> inputs= c(0.3+0*(1:12) ) >> (format(inputs,digits=3,scientific=T,collapse=" ")) > > and it works > > [1] "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" > [10] "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" > > if I use different numbers it does not: > >> C <- c(840,1000,1000,1000) >> R <- c(860,2500,2500,2000) >> L <- c(0.23,1,1,1.1) >> T <- c(0.2,0.2,0.3,0.175) >> I <- c(0.05,0.1,0.14,0.18) >> inputs <- cbind(C,R,L,T,I) > > If I try the same format command, it does not: >> (format(c(inputs[1,]),digits=3, scientific=T)) > Error in prettyNum(.Internal(format(x, trim, digits, nsmall, width, 3, : > invalid 'scientific' argument > > Only if I change scientific to NA >> (format(c(inputs[1,]),digits=3, scientific=NA)) > > remark (not important for the problem): > but I need scientific because sometimes the strings get to long otherwise > > > Now if I am trying the same thing as at the beginning it doesn't work anymore >> inputs= c(0.3+0*(1:12) ) >> (format(inputs,digits=3,scientific=T,collapse=" ")) > Error in prettyNum(.Internal(format(x, trim, digits, nsmall, width, 3, : > invalid 'scientific' argument > > This looks like some problem in .Internal(format, ...) to me!? > > if I remove everything from my environment >> rm(list=ls(all=T)) >> >> inputs= c(0.3+0*(1:12) ) >> (format(inputs,digits=3,scientific=T,collapse=" ")) > [1] "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" > [10] "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" >> > it works again! > > rm(list=ls(all=T)) > > inputs= c(0.3+0*(1:12) ) > (format(inputs,digits=3,scientific=T,collapse=" ")) > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
