Ahhh, great! I knew it will be correct if the output is directed to a file, but I wanted it for the console [which is perfectly solved by cat()].
Thanks, Uwe. Cheers, Marius On 2010-12-30, at 19:55 , Uwe Ligges wrote: > > > On 30.12.2010 19:53, Marius Hofert wrote: >> Dear Uwe, >> >>> Actually I expected >>> >>> format(10000, big.mark = "\\\\,") >>> >>> to work (you need to double excape the backslashes here). >> >> this I also tried :-) >> >>> >>> But the two characters are reversed due to the code in prettyNum(). Not >>> sure if it is expected, but the user was probably not expected to use more >>> than a single character as the big.mark. >>> >>> You can get it right by reversing as in: >>> >>> format(10000, big.mark = ",\\\\") >> >> but then I get "10\\,000" instead of "10\,000". > > No, you get "10\,000" which is represented by R when printed as "10\\,000". > If you want it as output export it by write......() or just use cat() as in: > > cat(format(10000, big.mark = ",\\\\")) > > Uwe > > > > The reason why I want to have "10\,000" is for use in LaTeX. If I produce the > format "10\\,000" in a table, then xtable gives me 10$\backslash$,000 for the > corresponding cell entry, which is wrong :-(. Do you know a trick for that? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Marius >> >>> >>> >>> Uwe Ligges >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 30.12.2010 19:32, Marius Hofert wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> why does format(10000, big.mark = "\\,") not give me "10\,000"? How can I >>>> get this kind of "big.mark"? >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Marius >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> 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. >> ______________________________________________ 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.
