[R] Scientific Notation

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Francisco J. Zagmutt wrote:

> I believe the argument to format is "scientific" i.e.
> axis(2, at=at, labels=format(at, scientific=FALSE))

Yes, but abbreviations of argument names are allowed.

Here setting a small positive value of options(scipen) (e.g. 2) gives 
floating-point notation as in

> at <- c(0.00005, 0.0005)
> options(scipen=2)
> as.character(at)
[1] "0.00005" "0.0005"
> axis(2, at=at, labels=as.character(at))

would do the job (and in many similar cases).

>
> Best regards,
>
> Francisco
>
> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> On 9/26/2007 11:24 AM, Jacques Wagnor wrote:
>>> Dear List:
>>>
>>> Below is how I specify an axis:
>>>
>>> axis(2, at=c(0.00005, 0.0005))
>>>
>>> R displays the numbers in scientific notation.  What
>>> argument/parameter should I use to tell R to display the numbers as
>>> specified rather than in scientific notation?
>>
>> Something like
>>
>> axis(2, at=c(0.00005, 0.0005), labels=c("0.00005", "0.0005"))
>>
>> is a way to be 100% sure of what will be displayed, but in this
>> particular instance,
>>
>> at <- c(0.00005, 0.0005)
>> axis(2, at=at, labels=format(at, sci=FALSE))
>>
>> comes close, and there may be some other format spec that gets exactly
>> what you want.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
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