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> 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"

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

>>>>> 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()