Omitting the leading zero is dangerous, since the decimal point can disappear
in a poor hardcopy leading to later misinterpretation.
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Michael Friendly <frien...@yorku.ca> wrote:
>A simple question, but I can't find something to do what I want:
>
>Given: a vector of numbers, like
>
>lambda <- c(0, 0.005, 0.01, 0.02, 0.04, 0.08)
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>Desired: format them in minimal space for use as plot labels, ie,
>without leading or tailing 0s. For this example:
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>lambdaf <- c("0", .005", ".01", ".02", ".04", ".08")
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