I have a very small number like 1.466013e-65, I want to round it to 3 decimals left while keeping all the 0s, here is the code I used:
round(1.466013e-65,3)
this will get me 0, but I want it to be 0.000. How to do it?
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1You want `0.000` to be character? – pogibas Dec 22 '17 at 19:59
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3But it still be equal to 0. – pogibas Dec 22 '17 at 20:02
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Yes, I just want it to be in this format – Lucifer Dec 22 '17 at 20:03
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It would come as a character I guess like `"0.000"` – sm925 Dec 22 '17 at 20:07
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Yeah, @PoGibas, I guess it doesn't make too much sense, I will use a character, thank you! – Lucifer Dec 22 '17 at 20:09
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And thank you!@suchait – Lucifer Dec 22 '17 at 20:09
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2Possible duplicate of [Keeping trailing zeros](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5458729/keeping-trailing-zeros) – storaged Dec 22 '17 at 20:36
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If you are fine with character, then you can do it using:-
sprintf("%.3f", round(1.466013e-65, 3))
[1] "0.000"
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1while doing `sprintf()` the formatting will be done so no need to round. Just do `sprintf("%.3f",1.466013e-65)` – Onyambu Dec 22 '17 at 20:27
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