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signif()
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Unrau)
Fri Feb 3 16:21:24 1995
From: Greg Unrau <gregu@ocgy.ubc.ca>
To: S-news@stat.wisc.edu (spluslist)
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 13:00:46 -0800 (PST)
I wish to figure out how to include zeros when using signif() and round().
Here's what I mean. Let's say I have vector fish_c(11.02,32.34,46.78,45.44) and
I want to plot these values on a figure using text(). So this is what I
supply to the function:
text(x,y,labels=signif(round(fish,1),3))
This *should* result in the following values plotted:
"11.0","32.3","46.8","45.4"
However Splus thinks I don't care about the .0 on the 11.0 and cuts it off
so that I get:
"11","32.3","46.8","45.4"
Isn't signif() supposed to retain the number of sigfigs you give it regardless
of zeros. Help!
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