R help - Mar 2006 - R] Sweave scientific real display format (e.g. 5e-12)

How about some variation on the following:

x <- 5e-12
xc <- as.character(x)
xss<-strsplit(xc, "")
paste("$",xss[1],"\cdot ^{",xss[3],xss[4],
xss[5],"}$", sep = "")
[1] "$5cdot ^{-12}$"

untried, of course, but maybe you could squeeze something out of it.

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Dear All,

I couldn't figure and couldn't google out how to make construct a pair
of
\Sexpr s or a LaTeX macro that would include
      5\cdot 10^{-12}
into the LaTeX output istead of
      5e-12 .

Any ideas?

Thank you

G?bor


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