R devel - Feb 2010 - [R] Suppressing scientific notation on plot axis tick labels (PR#14202)

On 02/02/2010 6:20 AM, Dimitri Shvorob wrote:
> Ruben Roa has kindly suggested using 'scipen' option - cf.
> 
>> fixed notation will be preferred unless it is more than ???scipen???
digits
>> wider.
> 
> However, 
> 
> options(scipen = 50)
> x  = c(1e7, 2e7)
> barplot(x) 
> 
> still does not produce the desired result.
This is strange.  I see what you describe the first time through, but
if I print the option I get the non-scientific labels on the second plot:

options(scipen = 50)
x  = c(1e7, 2e7)
barplot(x)
options("scipen")
barplot(x)

Looks like some sort of caching bug to me.  I don't think I'll have time
to track this down; this is a crazy week.  I see the same thing in 
R-devel as in 2.10.1.

Duncan Murdoch

Version:
  platform = i386-pc-mingw32
  arch = i386
  os = mingw32
  system = i386, mingw32
  status   major = 2
  minor = 10.1
  year = 2009
  month = 12
  day = 14
  svn rev = 50720
  language = R
  version.string = R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)

Windows XP (build 2600) Service Pack 3

Locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252

Search Path:
  .GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices, 
package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods, Autoloads, package:base

murdoch at stats.uwo.ca wrote:
> On 02/02/2010 6:20 AM, Dimitri Shvorob wrote:
>> Ruben Roa has kindly suggested using 'scipen' option - cf.
>>
>>> fixed notation will be preferred unless it is more than
???scipen??? digits
>>> wider.
>> However, 
>>
>> options(scipen = 50)
>> x  = c(1e7, 2e7)
>> barplot(x) 
>>
>> still does not produce the desired result.
> 
> This is strange.  I see what you describe the first time through, but
> if I print the option I get the non-scientific labels on the second plot:
> 
> options(scipen = 50)
> x  = c(1e7, 2e7)
> barplot(x)
> options("scipen")
> barplot(x)
> 
> Looks like some sort of caching bug to me.  I don't think I'll have
time
> to track this down; this is a crazy week.  I see the same thing in 
> R-devel as in 2.10.1.
Same thing with, e.g.

x <- c(1e7, 2e7)
options(scipen =3)
barplot(x)
x
barplot(x)
options(scipen=0)
barplot(x)
x
barplot(x)

> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> Version:
>   platform = i386-pc-mingw32
>   arch = i386
>   os = mingw32
>   system = i386, mingw32
>   status >   major = 2
>   minor = 10.1
>   year = 2009
>   month = 12
>   day = 14
>   svn rev = 50720
>   language = R
>   version.string = R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
> 
> Windows XP (build 2600) Service Pack 3
> 
> Locale:
>
LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252
> 
> Search Path:
>   .GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices, 
> package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods, Autoloads, package:base
> 
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