Round: Round Half Away from Zero

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Round Half Away from Zero

Description

This is an ordinary rounding function, so called round half away from zero

Usage

Round(x, n = 0)

Arguments

x	numeric to be rounded
n	indicating decimal digits

Details

The function round in R base rounds to the even number, i.e. round(0.5) is 0 not 1. If you want rounding 0.5 be 1, you can use this Round function. This function is for the consistency with other software like MS-Excel, SAS.

Value

ordinarily rounded value

Author(s)

Kyun-Seop Bae <[e-mail]>

References

See wikipedia subject "Rounding"

Examples

(x = 1:10 - 0.5)
Round(x)
round(x) # compare with the above

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