R help - Jul 2013 - R number format with Hmisc and knitr

Dear R-Users and R-Devels,

I have a problem when using knitr in combination with Hmisc. I generate a
data.frame which has mixed scientific and non-scientific numbers inside. In my
Latex Table I just want to have non-scientific format, so I call

latex(myDataFrame,
file = '',
cdec = c(0, rep(4, NROW(myDataFrame) - 1)),
)

Usually this works, but in this case it doesn't. I do not know why but
suspect the mixed data format to be the culprit. What could I do?

Using format(, scientific = FALSE) before or options(scipen = 4) before has no
influence.


Best

Simon

Errata:

it must say:

latex(myDataFrame,
file = '',
cdec = c(0, rep(4, NCOL(myDataFrame) - 1))
)

But this does not work. Scientific notation is very robust :)

Apologize

Simon

On Jul 31, 2013, at 5:05 PM, Simon Zehnder <szehnder at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:
> Dear R-Users and R-Devels,
> 
> I have a problem when using knitr in combination with Hmisc. I generate a
data.frame which has mixed scientific and non-scientific numbers inside. In my
Latex Table I just want to have non-scientific format, so I call
> 
> latex(myDataFrame,
> file = '',
> cdec = c(0, rep(4, NROW(myDataFrame) - 1)),
> )
> 
> Usually this works, but in this case it doesn't. I do not know why but
suspect the mixed data format to be the culprit. What could I do?
> 
> Using format(, scientific = FALSE) before or options(scipen = 4) before has
no influence.
> 
> 
> Best
> 
> Simon
> 
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