round() and negative digits
On 11-10-08 5:32 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 09/10/11 00:18, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 11-10-07 5:26 PM, Carl Witthoft wrote:
Just wondering here -- I tested and found to my delight that % round(325.4,-2) [1] 300 gave me exactly what I would have expected (and wanted). Since it's not explicitly mentioned in the documentation that negative 'digits' is allowed, I just wanted to ask whether this behavior is intentional or a happy turn of events. I'm always paranoid that something not explicitly documented might disappear in future revisons.
It is intentional, and one of the regression tests confirms that it's there, so it won't disappear by mistake, and would be very unlikely to disappear intentionally.
Uh, wouldn't it be *nice* to mention this --- not completely obvious --- capability in the help file?
If we told you all of R's secrets, we'd have to kill you. Duncan Murdoch