smart_signif: Minimum preferred significant digits

In moodymudskipper/cutr: Enhanced cut And Useful Related Functions

Description

Minimum preferred significant digits

Usage

smart_signif(x, digits = 3L, ...)

Arguments

x	numeric, length 2 or more
digits	integer, number of preferred remaining significant digits
...	unused, kept for compatibility reasons

Details

Facilitate reducing numbers to their least distinguishable significant digits, where "distinguishable" means "between neighbors". This means that if reducing more digits would cause two neighbors to reduce to the same number, then the reduction cannot take place.

Value

numeric vector

author

r2evans

See Also

Original question on StackOverflow

Examples

set.seed(1)
x  <- cumsum(abs(rnorm(10,100,100)))
smart_signif(x, 1)
smart_signif(x, 2)
smart_signif(x, 3)

moodymudskipper/cutr documentation built on Aug. 23, 2019, 7:15 p.m.