similar to: Possible bug in formatC

Friends I am trying to format a number to a string so 2189.745 goes to "2,189.35" and 309283.929 goes to "309,283.93" I have tried to use formatC(X, big.mark=",",drop0trailing=FALSE, format="f") but it does not get the number of decimals correct. Specifying digits does not work as that is significant digits. I could use a switch statement switching on

Dear R Core Team, First of all, thank you for your amazing work on developing and maintaining this wonderful language. I just stumbled upon the following behavior in R version 3.6.0: format(9.91, digits = 2, nsmall = 2) format(9.99, digits = 2, nsmall = 2) yield "9.91" and " 9.99" with an extraneous whitespace. My expected output for the second command is

? Fri, 23 May 2025 11:47:33 +0000 Marttila Mikko via R-devel <r-devel at r-project.org> ?????: > When called with a numeric vector, the `replace.zero` argument is > disregarded. > > > prettyNum(0, zero.print = "- ", replace.zero = TRUE) > [1] "-" > Warning message: > In .format.zeros(x, zero.print, replace = replace.zero) : >

Dear list, I'd like to report a bug in `prettyNum()`. When called with a numeric vector, the `replace.zero` argument is disregarded. > prettyNum(0, zero.print = "- ", replace.zero = TRUE) [1] "-" Warning message: In .format.zeros(x, zero.print, replace = replace.zero) : 'zero.print' is truncated to fit into formatted zeros; consider 'replace=TRUE' A

Thank you, Marttila and Ivan, As the original author of prettyNum() {etc ..}, I will commit such a bug fix to R-devel (and probably port it to R 4.5.0 patched) quite soon (but not yet today). Best regards, Martin Maechler >>>>> Ivan Krylov via R-devel >>>>> on Fri, 23 May 2025 17:14:57 +0300 writes: > ? Fri, 23 May 2025 11:47:33 +0000 >

Thanks for the contribution Mikko! For testing future patches, you can actually do it right in the web browser, thanks to Heather Turner's R Dev Container, see instructions here https://contributor.r-project.org/r-dev-env/container_setup/ Best Toby On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 6:28?PM Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: > Thank you, Marttila and Ivan, > > As

Tim, The purpose of the `replace.zero` argument is to allow longer replacements. See for example the behaviour with a character vector input: > prettyNum("0", zero.print = "- ", replace.zero = TRUE) [1] "- " I'm pretty sure this is a bug, and have now posted the relevant details on r-devel. A fix would be below. Best, Mikko diff --git

Hi all After posting what follows, Duncan Murdoch suggested perhaps a bug in formatC, or an error on documentation. Any comments? In particular, bug, error or not, any ideas about how I can consistently get two significant figures to print? P. ---------- Original Message ---------- Hi all I am not a C programmer, but I am trying to understand formatC to get consistent printing of

As a sequel to my previous mail on cut, formatC does not produce what I have been taught is significant digits: > x <- c(1.0793,1.0796, 11.0954, 11.0736 ) > formatC(x,digits=3,format="g") [1] "1.08" "1.08" "11.1" "11.1" (3,3,3,3) significant digits OK > formatC(x,digits=3,format="f") [1] "1.079"

Hi all I am not a C programmer, but I am trying to understand formatC to get consistent printing of reals to a given number of significant digits. Can someone please explain this to me? These first three give what I expect on reading ?formatC: > formatC(0.0059999, digits=2,format="fg",flag="#") [1] "0.0060" > formatC(0.59999,

I have a four-digit string I want to convert to five digits. Take the following frame: zip 2108 60321 60321 22030 91910 I need row 1 to read '02108'. This forum directed me to formatC previously (thanks!) That usually works but, for some reason, it's not in this instance. Neither of the syntaxes below change '2108' to '02108.' The values in cand_receipts[,1] are of

Full_Name: Bernd Bischl Version: 2.8.1 OS: Windows XP Professional Submission from: (NULL) (129.217.207.95) Hi, there seems to be a small bug in formatC: formatC("foo", format="s", mode="charcacter") Error in formatC("foo", format = "s", mode = "charcacter") : 'mode' must be "double" ("real") or

formatC() is great for formatting numbers! But it would be even better if it could optionally insert commas (or semicolons), e.g. R> formatC(1234567.89, digits=2, format="f", commas=T) [1] "1,234,567.89" Here's a snippet of code that does that, which could more or less just be inserted into at the end of formatC if any R-core guru were so inclined. "r"

>>>>> "KevinW" == Kevin Wright <kwright68 at gmail.com> >>>>> on Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:13:36 +0100 (CET) writes: KevinW> Full_Name: Kevin Wright KevinW> Version: 2.2.0 KevinW> OS: Windows 2000 ^^^^^^^ this must be part of the problem KevinW> Submission from: (NULL) (170.54.58.4) KevinW> Apologies if

I'm trying to convert a matrix of capture occasions to format that an external program can read. The job is to basically take a row of matrix, like > smp[1,] [1] 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 and convert it to the equivalent string "1101110000" I'm having problems doing this in a speedy way. The simplest solution (calc_history below, using apply, paste and collapse) takes about 2

I managed with success to export a data frame of 367 columns and 37 rows to a txt file, but unfortunately I couldn't manage the same with the transposed data frame. Specifically, it seems like the notebook cannot "read" correctly 367 columns, so it reads the first 145 columns and it folds down the rest of them and consequently it folds down the respective data.

formatC(0.0001, digits = 3, format = "f", zero.print="< 0.01") Error in strrep(" ", nc - i1) : invalid 'times' value The problem, if it is one, is in .format.zeros: .format.zeros("0.000", "xxxxxx") Error in strrep(" ", nc - i1) : invalid 'times' value R version 3.5.1. David [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I can reproduce this. It has to do with whether the value rounds down to 9 or up to 10, and thus needs another space, I think. I agree that it shouldn't happen, but at least you can get rid of the space by using trim = TRUE. # rounds to 9 vs 10 format(9.95, digits = 2) format(9.96, digits = 2) format(9.95, digits = 2, nsmall = 2) format(9.96, digits = 2, nsmall = 2) format(9.95, digits =

Full_Name: Peter Ehlers Version: rw2001pat (2005-02-03) OS: Win XP Submission from: (NULL) (136.159.61.115) formatC(1, flag="s") crashes Rgui. Similarly for flag=[SnZ]. Stupid input, of course, but I'm error-prone. Peter

Hi all, I want to label an axis with exponents, but can't get it done with expression. Any hints would be very welcome! # simulated data, somewhat similarly distributed to my real data: set.seed(12); d <- rbeta(1e6, 0.2,2)*150 ; d <- d[d>1e-8] hist( d? , breaks=100) # now on a logarithmically scaled axis: hist(log10(d), breaks=100, xaxt="n") abline(v=