Re: [R] Pretty printing numbers

2011-05-09 Thread Peter Ehlers
On 2011-05-08 16:41, Worik R wrote: Friends I am trying to format a number to a string so 2189.745 goes to "2,189.35" and 309283.929 goes to "309,283.93" I have tried to use formatC(X, big.mark=",",drop0trailing=FALSE, format="f") but it does not get the number of decimals correct. Specifying

Re: [R] Pretty printing numbers

2011-05-08 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
formatC(round(2189.745, 2), big.mark=",",format="f", drop0trailing = TRUE) On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Worik R wrote: >> formatC(round(2189.745, 2), big.mark=",",format="f") > [1] "2,189.7400" > > Unfortunately this does not work > > Worik > > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Peter Langfelder

Re: [R] Pretty printing numbers

2011-05-08 Thread Worik R
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:06 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > > On May 8, 2011, at 8:02 PM, Worik R wrote: > > formatC(round(2189.745, 2), big.mark=",",format="f") >>> >> [1] "2,189.7400" >> >> Unfortunately this does not work >> > > Because you did not follow his example. > That is true. I did not

Re: [R] Pretty printing numbers

2011-05-08 Thread David Winsemius
On May 8, 2011, at 8:02 PM, Worik R wrote: formatC(round(2189.745, 2), big.mark=",",format="f") [1] "2,189.7400" Unfortunately this does not work Because you did not follow his example. -- David. Worik On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Peter Langfelder < peter.langfel...@gmail.com> wrote:

Re: [R] Pretty printing numbers

2011-05-08 Thread Worik R
> formatC(round(2189.745, 2), big.mark=",",format="f") [1] "2,189.7400" Unfortunately this does not work Worik On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Peter Langfelder < peter.langfel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Worik R wrote: > > Friends > > > > I am trying to format a num

Re: [R] Pretty printing numbers

2011-05-08 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Worik R wrote: > Friends > > I am trying to format a number to a string so 2189.745 goes to "2,189.35" > and 309283.929 goes to "309,283.93" > > I have tried to use formatC(X, big.mark=",",drop0trailing=FALSE, format="f") > but it does not get the number of decimals

[R] Pretty printing numbers

2011-05-08 Thread Worik R
Friends I am trying to format a number to a string so 2189.745 goes to "2,189.35" and 309283.929 goes to "309,283.93" I have tried to use formatC(X, big.mark=",",drop0trailing=FALSE, format="f") but it does not get the number of decimals correct. Specifying digits does not work as that is signif