Formatting Decimal places in R

Question

I have a number, for example 1.128347132904321674821 that I would like to show as only two decimal places when output to screen (or written to a file). How does one do that?

Answer 1

You can try my package formattable.

> # devtools::install_github("renkun-ken/formattable")
> library(formattable)
> x <- formattable(1.128347132904321674821, digits = 2, format = "f")
> x
[1] 1.13

The good thing is, x is still a numeric vector and you can do more calculations with the same formatting.

> x + 1
[1] 2.13

Even better, the digits are not lost, you can reformat with more digits any time :)

> formattable(x, digits = 6, format = "f")
[1] 1.128347