[R] Printing zero as dot

[Giovanni Petris]

Many thanks to J.R. Lockwood and to Sundar Dorai-Raj for sending me
their suggestions. I ended up using Sundar's function blended with a
flavour of `zapsmall':

print.matrix2 <- function(x, zero = ".", digits=getOption("digits"), ...) {
    if (all(ina <- is.na(x))) 
        return(x)
    if (length(digits) == 0) 
        stop("invalid digits")
    mx <- max(abs(x[!ina]))
    x <- round(x, digits = if (mx > 0) 
               max(0, digits - log10(mx))
    else digits)
    zeros <- which(x == 0, arr.ind = TRUE)
    x[zeros] <- zero
    print(x, quote = FALSE, right = TRUE, ...)
    invisible()
}

Have a good weekend,
Giovanni 


> 
> I'm pretty sure I've seen some examples of a function printing zero
> entries in a matrix as dots, but I'm not able to find it now...
> Any suggestions...? Thanks in advance. (Of course, I might have dreamt
> of such a function...) 
> 
> Best,
> Giovanni
> 

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