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2019 Mar 22
1
prettyNum digits=0 not compatible with scientific notation
> On 22 Mar 2019, at 18:07 , Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>
> gives (on Linux R 3.5.3, Fedora 28)
>
> d=10 d=7 d=2 d=1 d=0
> [1,] "123456" "123456" "123456" "1e+05" "%#4.0-1e"
> [2,] "12345.6" "12345.6" "12346"
2019 Mar 22
2
prettyNum digits=0 not compatible with scientific notation
FWIW, it doesn't seem to be happening on Mac OS:
> format(2^30, digits=0)
[1] "1.e+09"
> prettyNum(12345.6, digits=0)
[1] "1.e+04"
A glibc misfeature?
-pd
> On 22 Mar 2019, at 10:10 , Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>
> Thank you, Robert for raising this here !
>
>>>>>> Robert McGehee
2019 Mar 22
0
prettyNum digits=0 not compatible with scientific notation
>>>>> peter dalgaard
>>>>> on Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:30:19 +0100 writes:
> FWIW, it doesn't seem to be happening on Mac OS:
>> format(2^30, digits=0)
> [1] "1.e+09"
>> prettyNum(12345.6, digits=0)
> [1] "1.e+04"
> A glibc misfeature?
It seems (and note we are talking about format.default()