[R] Scale package change comma defaults?

[John Kane]

Thanks Ben,
I did just that after getting Duncan's reply. I should have seen it myself but for some reason thought I could treat it as an option.  Myopia at its best.

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bbolker at gmail.com
> Sent: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 20:57:58 +0000
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Scale package change comma defaults?
> 
> John Kane <jrkrideau <at> inbox.com> writes:
> 
>>  I was using the comma() funtion in the scales page and was
>> wondering how to chage a the defaults.  comm(1000) gives me 1,000
>> which is what I usually want but how would I change the output to
>> 1.000.
> 
>  Since the comma() function is just a wrapper for format():
> 
>> scales::comma
> function (x, ...)
> {
>     format(x, ..., big.mark = ",", scientific = FALSE, trim = TRUE)
> }
> 
> Why not just define your own function that does what you want?
> 
> myComma <- function (x, big.mark=",", ...)
> {
>     format(x, ..., big.mark = big.mark, scientific = FALSE, trim = TRUE)
> }
> 
> myComma(1000,".")
> 
>> I had thought that I could simply do
>> comm(1000, big.mark = ".")
>> but I am getting
>> Error in format.default(x, ..., big.mark = ",", scientific = FALSE, trim
>> =
> TRUE) :
>>   formal argument "big.mark" matched by multiple actual arguments
> 
>> And since I'm here I might as well ask if there is a way
>> to keep a couple fo decemal points rather than rounding to the first
>> integer.
> 
>  Not quite sure what you mean here; see ?format for more details.
> 
> format(1200,big.mark=".",nsmall=2)
> 
> might be what you want, but if you're going to use "." for big.mark
> then you might want:
> 
> options(OutDec=",")
> 
> [1] "1.200,00"
> 
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