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Elin
Elin

Reputation: 6755

Is it possible to not pad numerics with 0s when printing in r?

In r by default the print method seems to pad printed numbers with extra 0s to the right of the decimal place so that all of the numbers are displayed with the same number of decimals, which is equal to the maximum number of decimals.

For example

a <- c(5, 3.25, 7.9999)
b <- c(5.1, 3.2, 8.3)
data.frame(a, b)

yields

       a   b
1 5.0000 5.1
2 3.2500 3.2
3 7.9999 8.3

I know I can use options to change the maximum number of digits but that will just change the number of 0s added. I don't want to change them to characters because I'd like to be able to work with the numbers afterwards. I just want to print the values as they are actually stored in the data frame (or other) object.

Is there any way to do that?

Note: This is not the same as asking how to set a fixed number of digits either generally or dynamically. The proposed duplicate questions address that issue.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 57

Answers (1)

akrun
akrun

Reputation: 887158

Instead of creating a vector, we can store it in list and that will preserve the digits as in the original

list(5, 3.25, 7.9999)
#[[1]]
#[1] 5

#[[2]]
#[1] 3.25

#[[3]]
#[1] 7.9999

If we really need a data.frame

data.frame(a = I(list(5, 3.25, 7.9999)), b = I(list(5.1, 3.2, 8.3)))
#      a   b
#1      5 5.1
#2   3.25 3.2
#3 7.9999 8.3

Upvotes: 1

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