Hmm... do something like that, no need to change the global option (I used a named vector instead of a list, it's more convenient):
eg <- function(x, digits=4) { xbar <- mean(x) sdx <- sd(x) value <- c(xbar, sdx) names(value) <- c("Mean of X", "SD of X") print(round(value,digits)); return(invisible(value))} On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.ps...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear R users, > > I am stuck trying to figure out how to make a function return one > value and print another. Here is an example function: > > ################## > eg <- function(x, digits=4) { > xbar <- mean(x) > sdx <- sd(x) > value <- list(xbar, sdx) > names(value) <- c("Mean of X", "SD of X") > return(value)} > ################## > > My current "solution" has been to round the variables before putting > them into the list. Since it can go up to 22 digits, this is fine for > my basic needs. However, my goal is for assignments to have full > precision, but the screen printout to be rounded to "digits". I have > looked through ?return ?cat ?print. > > Can anyone suggest where I can learn how to do this (help pages, books, > etc.)? > > Thanks in advance, > > > Josh > > -- > Joshua Wiley > Senior in Psychology > University of California, Riverside > http://www.joshuawiley.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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.