How do I get 10^4 to become 10000?
Don MacQueen <macq at llnl.gov> writes:
How about this?
a <- c('10^4','1.2^3','2.3')
as.numeric(gsub('\\^','E',a))
[1] 1.0e+05 1.2e+03 2.3e+00 This solution doesn't work for "10^(-5)" but does work for "10^-5".
Didn't work too well for 1.2^3 by some standards...
a <- c('10^4','1.2^3','2.3')
sapply(parse(text=a),eval)
[1] 10000.000 1.728 2.300
O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907