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Notes: R engineering notation
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| # Tip from an email in: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/06/07/30469.html | |
| formatEng <- function(x) { | |
| s<-as.numeric(strsplit(format(x, scientific=T),"e")[[1]]) | |
| return(paste(s[1]*10^(s[2]%%3),as.integer(s[2]-(s[2]%%3)),sep="e")) | |
| } | |
| # Use with sapply on dataframe elements | |
| sapply(x$col, formatEng) |
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