Ron_M wrote: > > I am not sure if I understood the help page. It says "fixed notation will > be preferred unless it is more than âscipenâ digits wider". If I > understood correctly it says, the corresponding number needs to be less > wider than 'scipen' digit, to print it numerically. Let say: >  >> options(scipen = 5) >> 10^10 > [1] 1e+10 >> options(scipen = 6) >> 10^10 > [1] 10000000000 > > I both cases (10^10) is wider than scipen digit. Still why I am getting > different representations? I am missing something? >
In your case scientific notation requires 5 characters; fixed notation requires 11 characters. Difference is 6 which is larger than scipen=5: fixed notation is more than scipen digits wider. When you set scipen=6, fixed notation is NOT scipen digits wider. (unless is equivalent to "except if"). Berend -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Priniting-numerics-tp3061355p3061449.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
