Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305201506310.13704-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2003-05-20T14:12:07Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Several Basic Questions
In-Reply-To: <HDEPJCAKDEJMEEHKJOKEKEFBCBAA.myao@ou.edu>
On Tue, 20 May 2003, Minghua Yao wrote:
> I am having several basic questions that I haven't found the answer to from
> the manuals:
>
> 1. How to remove "[1]" when a single line message is printed?
Use cat()
> 2. How to print several variables (e.g., a character string and a numeric
> variable) at the same line?
Use cat()
> 3. How to have the control of the accuracy of variables? e.g., in the
> following,
>
> > x<-1134567.1
> > y<-0.19
> > z<-x-y
> > z
> [1] 1134567
> >
>
> I want variable to have an accuracy of 2 digits behind the decimal point
> instead of all the digits behind the point being cut off.
Use cat, round and format:
> cat(format(round(z, 2)), "\n")
1134566.91
These may not be explicit in the R manuals, but they are in all good books
on R (see the FAQ).
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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