R help - Mar 2007 - Inquiry

Good morning,

I have a question about R, I would like to know how it is possible not to
chop the result of an operation. How many decimals it is possible to obtain?

Thank you in advance,
I. L?pez
---------------------------------------------
Inmaculada L?pez Garc?a
Dpto. Estad?stica y Matem?tica Aplicada
Universidad de Almer?a
La Ca?ada de San Urbano, s/n
04120  Almer?a (SPAIN)
Tfno.:	 +34 950 01 57 75
Fax:    +34 950 01 51 67
e-mail: milopez at ual.es

Petr Pikal
petr.pikal at precheza.cz
----- Postoupil do Petr PIKAL/CTCAP dne 30.03.2007 15:47 -----

Petr PIKAL/CTCAP napsal dne 30.03.2007 15:01:58:
> Hi
> 
> Do you mean rounding. If yes you can consult 
> ?round, ?floor, ?ceiling.
> 
> If you want just to print different amount of digits you can look at
> options(digits=n) or ?sprintf or ?format
> 
> Regards
> 
> Petr Pikal
> petr.pikal at precheza.cz
> 
> r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch napsal dne 30.03.2007 13:12:23:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Good morning,
> > 
> > I have a question about R, I would like to know how it is possible not
to
> > chop the result of an operation. How many decimals it is possible to 
obtain?
> > 
> > Thank you in advance,
> > I. L?pez
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > Inmaculada L?pez Garc?a
> > Dpto. Estad?stica y Matem?tica Aplicada
> > Universidad de Almer?a
> > La Ca?ada de San Urbano, s/n
> > 04120  Almer?a (SPAIN)
> > Tfno.:    +34 950 01 57 75
> > Fax:    +34 950 01 51 67
> > e-mail: milopez at ual.es
> > 
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> > PLEASE do read the posting guide 
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

I am not sure I understand your question but have a
look at ?round and the signif command on that page.  

--- Inmaculada L?pez Garc?a <milopez at ual.es> wrote:
> 
> 
> Good morning,
> 
> I have a question about R, I would like to know how
> it is possible not to
> chop the result of an operation. How many decimals
> it is possible to obtain?
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> I. L?pez
> ---------------------------------------------
> Inmaculada L?pez Garc?a
> Dpto. Estad?stica y Matem?tica Aplicada
> Universidad de Almer?a
> La Ca?ada de San Urbano, s/n
> 04120  Almer?a (SPAIN)
> Tfno.:	 +34 950 01 57 75
> Fax:    +34 950 01 51 67
> e-mail: milopez at ual.es
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained,
> reproducible code.
>