signif.pad: Round Numbers to Specified Significant Digits with 0-Padding

In benjaminrich/PCSmisc: Useful functions for longitudinal data set construction and manipulation.

Round Numbers to Specified Significant Digits with 0-Padding

Description

A utility function to round numbers to a specified number of significant digits. Zeros are kept if they are significant.

Usage

signif.pad(x, digits = 3, round.integers = FALSE)

Arguments

x	A numeric vector.
digits	An interger specifying the number of significant digits to keep.
round.integers	Should rounding be limited to digits to the right of the decimal point?

Value

A character vector containing the rounded numbers.

Author(s)

Benjamin Rich <[e-mail]>

See Also

signif formatC prettyNum format

Examples

x <- c(0.9001, 12345, 1.2, 1., 0.1)
signif.pad(x, digits=3)
signif.pad(x, digits=3, round.integers=TRUE)

# Compare:
as.character(signif(x, digits=3))
format(x, digits=3, nsmall=3)
prettyNum(x, digits=3, drop0trailing=TRUE)
prettyNum(x, digits=3, drop0trailing=FALSE)

# This is very close.
formatC(x, format="fg", flag="#", digits=3) 
formatC(signif(x, 3), format="fg", flag="#", digits=3)

# Could always remove the trailing "."
sub("[.]$", "", formatC(x, format="fg", flag="#", digits=3))

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