R help - Mar 2012 - how to convert digits to specified decimal vectors

> x
[1] 7 8 9 10 11 12

convert such that

7.0000
8.0000
9.0000
10.000
11.000
12.000

total size of 5 digits for each value


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format
sprintf

Michael

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:16 AM, sagarnikam123 <sagarnikam123 at
gmail.com> wrote:
>> x
> [1] 7 8 9 10 11 12
>
> convert such that
>
> 7.0000
> 8.0000
> 9.0000
> 10.000
> 11.000
> 12.000
>
> total size of 5 digits for each value
>
>
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yes sir i used format() function like
> x<-c(3,5,6)
>y<-format(x,nsmall=6)
>y
[1] "3.000000" "5.000000" "6.000000"

but it again gives me same output
> as.double(y[1])
[1] 3

i want it in decimal style like 4.000 (i.e. without string format)


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On 24-03-2012, at 08:25, sagarnikam123 wrote:
> yes sir i used format() function like
> 
>> x<-c(3,5,6)
>> y<-format(x,nsmall=6)
>> y
> [1] "3.000000" "5.000000" "6.000000"
> 
> but it again gives me same output
>> as.double(y[1])
> [1] 3
> 
You are converting back to numeric and using the default print.

Use

cat(y)

Berend
> i want it in decimal style like 4.000 (i.e. without string format)
> 
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