Priniting numerics
Ron_M wrote:
I am not sure if I understood the help page. It says "fixed notation will be preferred unless it is more??than ???scipen??? digits wider". If I understood correctly it says, the corresponding number needs to be less wider than 'scipen' digit, to print it numerically. Let say: ??
options(scipen = 5) 10^10
[1] 1e+10
options(scipen = 6) 10^10
[1] 10000000000 I both cases (10^10) is wider than scipen digit. Still why I am getting different representations? I am missing something?
In your case scientific notation requires 5 characters; fixed notation requires 11 characters. Difference is 6 which is larger than scipen=5: fixed notation is more than scipen digits wider. When you set scipen=6, fixed notation is NOT scipen digits wider. (unless is equivalent to "except if"). Berend
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