[R] round up a number to 10^4

Clint Bowman clint at ecy.wa.gov
Tue Nov 1 20:55:18 CET 2011


Or does the middle number have two digits switched? 76131.17 would 
round up to 80000 very nicely.

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On Tue, 1 Nov 2011, David Winsemius wrote:

>
> On Nov 1, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Wendy wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have a list of numbers, e.g., X = c(60593.23, 71631.17, 75320.1), and 
>> want
>> to round them  so the output is Y = c(60000, 80000, 80000).
>
> Under what notion of "rounding" would that be the result?
>
>> I tried
>> Y<-round(X,-4), but it gives me Y = c(60000, 70000, 80000). Do anybody know
>> how to round up a number to 10^4?
>> 
>> Thank you in advance.
>
>
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