Format printing with R

Hi Steven,
I thought that the problem might be in the two large numbers, but
using a subset (I didn't want to edit out all the line numbers), I get
what I expected:

sydf<-read.table(text="Mean   Std.dev
[1,]  0.3107966  0.462820
[2,]  0.1880302  0.390736
[3,] 45.3185794 16.313635
[4,]  0.5066370  0.499956
[5,]  0.4933630  0.499956
[6,]  0.7029150  0.456974
[7,]  0.2970850  0.456974
[8,]  0.7967066  0.402449
[9,]  0.2032934  0.402449",
stringsAsFactors=FALSE,header=TRUE)

print(sydf,digits=2)

    Mean Std.dev
[1,]  0.31    0.46
[2,]  0.19    0.39
[3,] 45.32   16.31
[4,]  0.51    0.50
[5,]  0.49    0.50
[6,]  0.70    0.46
[7,]  0.30    0.46
[8,]  0.80    0.40
[9,]  0.20    0.40

I don't think it is your use of "cbind", but I didn't edit out Mean
and Std.dev and try it.

Jim

On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 7:41 AM Steven T. Yen via R-help
<r-help at r-project.org> wrote:

Hi, I have two variables with 86 observations each. Below I print with
the print command with digit=2. But, I am getting three decimal places
for my first variable and two for the second. Please help. Thanks.

 > cbind(Mean,Std.dev)

             Mean   Std.dev
  [1,]  0.3107966  0.462820
  [2,]  0.1880302  0.390736
  [3,] 45.3185794 16.313635
  [4,]  0.5066370  0.499956
  [5,]  0.4933630  0.499956
  [6,]  0.7029150  0.456974
  [7,]  0.2970850  0.456974
  [8,]  0.7967066  0.402449
  [9,]  0.2032934  0.402449
[10,]  0.6582301  0.474303
[11,]  0.3417699  0.474303
[12,]  0.7262913  0.445861
[13,]  0.2737087  0.445861
[14,]  0.6415484  0.479546
[15,]  0.3584516  0.479546
[16,]  0.9110264  0.284706
[17,]  0.0889736  0.284706
[18,]  0.5211453  0.499553
[19,]  0.4788547  0.499553
[20,]  0.5481055  0.497680
[21,]  0.4518945  0.497680
[22,]  0.9135090  0.281088
[23,]  0.0864910  0.281088
[24,]  0.8727269  0.333279
[25,]  0.1272731  0.333279
[26,]  0.1015717  0.302084
[27,]  0.6043692  0.488986
[28,]  0.2940592  0.455619
[29,]  0.2735274  0.445769
[30,]  0.3777426  0.484823
[31,]  0.3487300  0.476568
[32,]  0.1603127  0.366896
[33,]  0.1723783  0.377709
[34,]  0.1230961  0.328547
[35,]  0.1779381  0.382461
[36,]  0.0964334  0.295185
[37,]  0.1584698  0.365181
[38,]  0.1113717  0.314592
[39,]  0.3349813  0.471984
[40,]  0.4081109  0.491484
[41,]  0.2569078  0.436928
[42,]  0.1034356  0.304527
[43,]  0.6741233  0.468701
[44,]  0.1254412  0.331218
[45,]  0.0969999  0.295958
[46,]  0.0587457  0.235148
[47,]  0.4401115  0.496400
[48,]  0.4689114  0.499033
[49,]  0.0322313  0.176614
[50,]  0.5907618  0.491693
[51,]  0.1591195  0.365787
[52,]  0.1132923  0.316950
[53,]  0.1124207  0.315883
[54,]  0.0244058  0.154305
[55,]  0.7058787  0.455647
[56,]  0.2941213  0.455647
[57,]  0.0746892  0.262889
[58,]  0.4749110  0.499370
[59,]  0.3471837  0.476075
[60,]  0.0435036  0.203988
[61,]  0.0597126  0.236954
[62,]  0.0478775  0.213507
[63,]  0.1152615  0.319337
[64,]  0.2074968  0.405514
[65,]  0.2440626  0.429530
[66,]  0.1605995  0.367161
[67,]  0.0804598  0.272004
[68,]  0.1442422  0.351335
[69,]  0.3443231  0.475147
[70,]  0.4280560  0.494797
[71,]  0.0528221  0.223678
[72,]  0.0805222  0.272100
[73,]  0.0457169  0.208870
[74,]  0.0485596  0.214945
[75,]  0.1333443  0.339946
[76,]  0.0932917  0.290841
[77,]  0.0653987  0.247228
[78,]  0.0573934  0.232593
[79,]  0.1399086  0.346892
[80,]  0.0887337  0.284359
[81,]  0.0984479  0.297919
[82,]  0.0914421  0.288237
[83,]  0.1155505  0.319685
[84,]  0.1363764  0.343188
[85,]  0.1134570  0.317151
[86,]  1.2985286  0.739096

 > print(cbind(Mean,Std.dev),digits=2)

         Mean Std.dev
  [1,]  0.311    0.46
  [2,]  0.188    0.39
  [3,] 45.319   16.31
  [4,]  0.507    0.50
  [5,]  0.493    0.50
  [6,]  0.703    0.46
  [7,]  0.297    0.46
  [8,]  0.797    0.40
  [9,]  0.203    0.40
[10,]  0.658    0.47
[11,]  0.342    0.47
[12,]  0.726    0.45
[13,]  0.274    0.45
[14,]  0.642    0.48
[15,]  0.358    0.48
[16,]  0.911    0.28
[17,]  0.089    0.28
[18,]  0.521    0.50
[19,]  0.479    0.50
[20,]  0.548    0.50
[21,]  0.452    0.50
[22,]  0.914    0.28
[23,]  0.086    0.28
[24,]  0.873    0.33
[25,]  0.127    0.33
[26,]  0.102    0.30
[27,]  0.604    0.49
[28,]  0.294    0.46
[29,]  0.274    0.45
[30,]  0.378    0.48
[31,]  0.349    0.48
[32,]  0.160    0.37
[33,]  0.172    0.38
[34,]  0.123    0.33
[35,]  0.178    0.38
[36,]  0.096    0.30
[37,]  0.158    0.37
[38,]  0.111    0.31
[39,]  0.335    0.47
[40,]  0.408    0.49
[41,]  0.257    0.44
[42,]  0.103    0.30
[43,]  0.674    0.47
[44,]  0.125    0.33
[45,]  0.097    0.30
[46,]  0.059    0.24
[47,]  0.440    0.50
[48,]  0.469    0.50
[49,]  0.032    0.18
[50,]  0.591    0.49
[51,]  0.159    0.37
[52,]  0.113    0.32
[53,]  0.112    0.32
[54,]  0.024    0.15
[55,]  0.706    0.46
[56,]  0.294    0.46
[57,]  0.075    0.26
[58,]  0.475    0.50
[59,]  0.347    0.48
[60,]  0.044    0.20
[61,]  0.060    0.24
[62,]  0.048    0.21
[63,]  0.115    0.32
[64,]  0.207    0.41
[65,]  0.244    0.43
[66,]  0.161    0.37
[67,]  0.080    0.27
[68,]  0.144    0.35
[69,]  0.344    0.48
[70,]  0.428    0.49
[71,]  0.053    0.22
[72,]  0.081    0.27
[73,]  0.046    0.21
[74,]  0.049    0.21
[75,]  0.133    0.34
[76,]  0.093    0.29
[77,]  0.065    0.25
[78,]  0.057    0.23
[79,]  0.140    0.35
[80,]  0.089    0.28
[81,]  0.098    0.30
[82,]  0.091    0.29
[83,]  0.116    0.32
[84,]  0.136    0.34
[85,]  0.113    0.32
[86,]  1.299    0.74

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