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How to stop default printing of large numbers in R?
When we write a long number in R, by default the printed output of that number is in scientific notation. To stop this printing behavior we can use sprint function.
For example, if we have a data frame called df that contains a column say X having long numbers then we can stop printing of these numbers in scientific notation by using the below given command −
df$X<-sprintf("%f",df$X)
Example 1
Following snippet creates a sample data frame −
x<-rpois(20,100000000000000) df1<-data.frame(x) df1
Output
The following dataframe is created −
x 1 NA 2 NA 3 NA 4 NA 5 NA 6 NA 7 NA 8 NA 9 NA 10 NA 11 NA 12 NA 13 NA 14 NA 15 NA 16 NA 17 NA 18 NA 19 NA 20 NA
To print values of x with all digits, add the following code to the above snippet −
df1$x<-sprintf("%f",df1$x) df1
Output
If you execute all the above given codes as a single program, it generates the following output −
x 1 100000002878004.000000 2 100000006073034.000000 3 100000015081157.000000 4 99999991070780.000000 5 100000001649055.000000 6 100000008293503.000000 7 100000002065917.000000 8 100000001116032.000000 9 99999995600778.000000 10 100000003840096.000000 11 99999989811240.000000 12 99999993682758.000000 13 99999987127237.000000 14 100000004413443.000000 15 99999997385728.000000 16 100000004964710.000000 17 99999987378461.000000 18 100000013440743.000000 19 100000005847206.000000 20 100000019558343.000000
Example 2
Following snippet creates a sample data frame −
y<-rpois(20,123574125541235) df2<-data.frame(y) df2
Output
The following dataframe is created −
y 1 NA 2 NA 3 NA 4 NA 5 NA 6 NA 7 NA 8 NA 9 NA 10 NA 11 NA 12 NA 13 NA 14 NA 15 NA 16 NA 17 NA 18 NA 19 NA 20 NA
To print values of y with all digits, add the following code to the above snippet −
df2$y<-sprintf("%f",df2$y) df2
Output
If you execute all the above given codes as a single program, it generates the following output −
y 1 123574119946324.000000 2 123574123392734.000000 3 123574141533986.000000 4 123574126127884.000000 5 123574127737879.000000 6 123574117603698.000000 7 123574125442109.000000 8 123574128811340.000000 9 123574111352873.000000 10 123574117712696.000000 11 123574129555656.000000 12 123574123416637.000000 13 123574129492703.000000 14 123574127602845.000000 15 123574147713179.000000 16 123574133125007.000000 17 123574131515857.000000 18 123574128446719.000000 19 123574116541207.000000 20 123574133423019.000000