Dear Jeff, Great!! Thanks for your concern/good advice.
Best regards Ogbos On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 8:24 AM Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: > I gather you find the content of the help page for the xtable function > hard to understand, but you need to build the skill of reading them and > gathering clues about functions you call from them. > > * They always have a usage section that briefly summarizes how the > function is called and what the default values are for those parameters > that do have defaults. > > * They always mention what each parameter is for. (The help page may not > always be thorough enough to suit your preference, but CRAN requires the > author to make some effort to describe every parameter. Note that people > posting packages on GitHub have no one insisting that they put in this > effort, so beware that quality may vary more if you start using non-CRAN > packages.) The digits parameter is used by many data formatting functions, > and it can usually be specified as a vector with each element affecting a > corresponding column of data in order. > > * They always indicate what kind of Value will be returned from the > function. > > * They usually have Notes on how the function reacts to different input > values. > > * They often have Examples of how to use the function. > > * They often have a See Also section indicating what other functions you > might find relevant when using this function. > > * They sometimes have a section listing References to read to learn more > about the theory behind the function. > > Not all authors of help pages put the same level of effort into making > help pages readable, and there is undoubtedly some shorthand notation that > gives you key information more compactly than you might wish for as a > beginner. However, if you ask for help interpreting specific help pages > then you may learn more about how they work or the authors may re-write > certain help pages based on your questions to address the source of your > confusion. Beware that if you don't read them first and mention why they > didn't answer your question then you may get less helpful responses when > when you do ask questions. > > On September 17, 2018 10:49:43 PM PDT, Ogbos Okike < > giftedlife2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Dear Jeff, > > > >Thank you please. > > > >I did search before but could not get it resolved. But with your query > >now, > >just typed ?xtable as key search word and the first document I opened > >gave > >an indication of digits. Without knowing what it was saying, I tried it > >in > >my data and it gave the result I have been looking for. > > > >xtable(data, digits=12) and I am fine. > > > >Thank you so much. > > > >Ogbos > > > >On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 6:27 AM Jeff Newmiller > ><jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> > >wrote: > > > >> Have you read > >> > >> ?xtable > >> > >> > >> On September 17, 2018 7:24:37 PM PDT, Ogbos Okike < > >> giftedlife2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >Dear Volunteers, > >> > > >> >I have a table involving many decimal places: > >> >2005-01-04 -2.13339817688037 > >> >2005-01-19 -6.86312349695117 > >> >2005-01-22 -4.33662370554386 > >> >2005-02-10 -1.40789214441639 > >> >2005-02-13 -1.1334121785854 > >> >2005-02-19 -1.28411233010119 > >> >2005-05-09 -1.6895978161324 > >> >2005-05-16 -3.07664523496947 > >> >2005-06-17 -1.69904491217129 > >> >2005-07-17 -3.44289318667434 > >> >2005-08-07 -2.29676435700659 > >> >2005-08-10 -1.08915071542227 > >> >2005-08-24 -1.8244123081697 > >> >2005-09-13 -4.57899147546373 > >> >2005-09-15 -3.96591895962343 > >> > I used xtable to covert this to form of latex table. > >> > > >> >The result I have is: > >> >1 & 2005-01-04 & -2.13 \\ > >> > 2 & 2005-01-19 & -6.86 \\ > >> > 3 & 2005-01-22 & -4.34 \\ > >> > 4 & 2005-02-10 & -1.41 \\ > >> > 5 & 2005-02-13 & -1.13 \\ > >> > 6 & 2005-02-19 & -1.28 \\ > >> > 7 & 2005-05-09 & -1.69 \\ > >> > 8 & 2005-05-16 & -3.08 \\ > >> > 9 & 2005-06-17 & -1.70 \\ > >> > 10 & 2005-07-17 & -3.44 \\ > >> > 11 & 2005-08-07 & -2.30 \\ > >> > 12 & 2005-08-10 & -1.09 \\ > >> > 13 & 2005-08-24 & -1.82 \\ > >> > 14 & 2005-09-13 & -4.58 \\ > >> > 15 & 2005-09-15 & -3.97 \\. > >> > > >> >It has truncated the long decimal places. Since it is not want I > >want, > >> >I > >> >have to copy from the original table and place into xtable. > >> > > >> >Can you please tell me how to customize the xtable so that I will be > >> >responsible for the number of decimal places it displays. > >> > > >> >Many thanks for your precious time. > >> > > >> >Warmest regards > >> >Ogbos > >> > > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >> > > >> >______________________________________________ > >> >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > >> >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. > >> > >> -- > >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > >> > > -- > Sent from my phone. 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