Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305201637080.27144-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2003-05-20T15:38:36Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Several Basic Questions
In-Reply-To: <HDEPJCAKDEJMEEHKJOKECEFDCBAA.myao@ou.edu>
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!
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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