Message-ID: <59d7961d0803091558p3b36fbc2s65a90f6713d1946e@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2008-03-09T22:58:09Z
From: Henrik Bengtsson
Subject: format numbers into percentages
In-Reply-To: <65cc7bdf0803091536i726ee33dyc4b4f549ab07e2e@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 3:36 PM, tom soyer <tom.soyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently using the following to formate numbers into percentages:
>
> x=0.00112
> paste(round(x*100,2),"%",sep="")
My favorite is sprintf(), which allow you to control number of digits
at the same time you control for width etc, e.g.:
x <- seq(from=0, to=1, by=0.05)
s1 <- sprintf("%.2f%%", 100*x)
s2 <- sprintf("%6.2f%%", 100*x)
/H
>
> I am wondering if there is a built in R function that does the same. Does
> anyone know?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Tom
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