R help - Nov 2008 - Internal and displayed precision of numbers

Hello,

can the displayed and/or used precision of numbers be
configured? And if... how?


Ciao,
   Oliver

Oliver Bandel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> can the displayed and/or used precision of numbers be
> configured? And if... how?

See ?.Machine for the internally used precision.
See ?options and ?format/?formatC/?print for the printed precision.

Uwe Ligges


> 
> 
> Ciao,
>    Oliver
> 
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sprintf() for displayed numbers perhaps.  

--- On Wed, 11/5/08, Oliver Bandel <oliver at first.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> From: Oliver Bandel <oliver at first.in-berlin.de>
> Subject: [R] Internal and displayed precision of numbers
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Received: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 8:38 AM
> Hello,
> 
> can the displayed and/or used precision of numbers be
> configured? And if... how?
> 
> 
> Ciao,
>    Oliver
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org 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.