Several Basic Questions
On Tue, 20 May 2003, Minghua Yao wrote:
Dear Prof. Ripley, Thank you for your reply. It works fine except for question 3. I got
cat(format(round(z, 2)), "\n")
1134567 May variable z has been rounded to 0 digit behind the point at the very beginning. How to avoid that?
Read the help on format (and print), especially its `digits' argument. More generally, read the help pages on functions new to you!
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595