Also look at the zapsmall function. A useful but often overlooked tool.
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Petr Savicky <savicky at cs.cas.cz>
wrote:> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:17:09AM +0100, Gian Maria Niccol? Benucci wrote:
>> Dear List,
>>
>> I will appreciate any advice regarding how to convert the following
numbers
>> [I got in return by taxondive()] in numeric integers without the e.g.
>> 6.4836e+01
>> abbreviations.
>> Thank you very much in advance,
>>
>> Gian
>>
>> > taxa_dive
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Species ? ? ? Delta ? ? ?Delta* ? ? Lambda+ ? ? ?Delta+ S
>> Delta+
>> Nat1 ? ? ?5.0000e+00 ?6.4836e+01 ?9.5412e+01 ?6.7753e+02 ?8.7398e+01
>> 436.99
>> Nat2 ? ? ?2.0000e+00 ?4.0747e+01 ?1.0000e+02 ?0.0000e+00 ?1.0000e+02
>> 200.00
>> Nat3 ? ? ?3.0000e+00 ?4.5381e+01 ?7.7652e+01 ?2.8075e+02 ?8.8152e+01
>> 264.46
>> ....
>
> Hi.
>
> The exponential format was used probably due to some small
> numbers. For example
>
> ?tst <- rbind(
> ?c( 5.0000e+00, 6.4836e+01, 9.5412e+01, 6.7753e+02, 8.7398e+01, 436.99),
> ?c( 2.0000e+00, 4.0747e+01, 1.0000e+02, 0.0000e+00, 1.0000e+02, 200.00),
> ?c( 3.0000e+00, 4.5381e+01, 7.7652e+01, 2.8075e+02, 8.8152e+01, 264.46),
> ?c( 1e-8, ? ? ? 1e-8, ? ? ? 1e-8, ? ? ? 1e-8, ? ? ? 1e-8, ? ? ? 1 ))
>
> ?tst
>
> ? ? ? ?[,1] ? ? ? [,2] ? ? ? [,3] ? ? ? [,4] ? ? ? [,5] ? [,6]
> ?[1,] 5e+00 6.4836e+01 9.5412e+01 6.7753e+02 8.7398e+01 436.99
> ?[2,] 2e+00 4.0747e+01 1.0000e+02 0.0000e+00 1.0000e+02 200.00
> ?[3,] 3e+00 4.5381e+01 7.7652e+01 2.8075e+02 8.8152e+01 264.46
> ?[4,] 1e-08 1.0000e-08 1.0000e-08 1.0000e-08 1.0000e-08 ? 1.00
>
> Try roudning the numbers, for example
>
> ?round(tst, digits=4)
>
> ? ? ? [,1] ? [,2] ? ?[,3] ? [,4] ? ?[,5] ? [,6]
> ?[1,] ? ?5 64.836 ?95.412 677.53 ?87.398 436.99
> ?[2,] ? ?2 40.747 100.000 ? 0.00 100.000 200.00
> ?[3,] ? ?3 45.381 ?77.652 280.75 ?88.152 264.46
> ?[4,] ? ?0 ?0.000 ? 0.000 ? 0.00 ? 0.000 ? 1.00
>
> Alternatively, options(scipen=20) forces a fixed point printing
> with more digits.
>
> ?options(scipen=20)
> ?tst
>
> ? ? ? ? ? ? [,1] ? ? ? ?[,2] ? ? ? ? [,3] ? ? ? ? [,4] ? ? ? ? [,5] ? [,6]
> ?[1,] 5.00000000 64.83600000 ?95.41200000 677.53000000 ?87.39800000 436.99
> ?[2,] 2.00000000 40.74700000 100.00000000 ? 0.00000000 100.00000000 200.00
> ?[3,] 3.00000000 45.38100000 ?77.65200000 280.75000000 ?88.15200000 264.46
> ?[4,] 0.00000001 ?0.00000001 ? 0.00000001 ? 0.00000001 ? 0.00000001 ? 1.00
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Petr Savicky.
>
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