On 10 Apr 2008, at 12:57, Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote:
>
> On 10 Apr 2008, at 12:33, Stanley Ng wrote:
>> How can I use formatC to convert 6000000 to 6e5 and not 6e+05 ?
>>
>>> formatC(600000)
>> [1] "6e+05"
>>> formatC(600000, format="e", digit=0)
>> [1] "6e+05"
>
>
> Try this:
>
> gsub("([eE])(\\+?)(\\-?)0+", "\\1\\3", formatC(600000, format="e",
> digit=0))
Sorry this only works up to e+09 or e-09.
This should handle all:
gsub("([eE])(\\+?)(\\-?)0*", "\\1\\3", formatC(600000, format="e",
digit=0))
--Hans
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