[R] How to create a legend without plot, and to use scientific notation for axes label ?

[Hans-Joerg Bibiko]

On 10 Apr 2008, at 12:33, Stanley Ng wrote:
> How can I use formatC to convert 6000000 to 6e5 and not 6e+05 ?
>
>> formatC(600000)
> [1] "6e+05"
>> formatC(600000, format="e", digit=0)
> [1] "6e+05"


Try this:

gsub("([eE])(\\+?)(\\-?)0+", "\\1\\3", formatC(600000, format="e",  
digit=0))

--Hans