From r.hankin at noc.soton.ac.uk  Thu Sep 21 09:05:24 2006
From: r.hankin at noc.soton.ac.uk (Robin Hankin)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:05:24 +0100
Subject: [Rd] printing of complex numbers in R-alpha
Message-ID: <0BAEBFBF-7FBC-4349-BDCE-30BAE955E11B@soc.soton.ac.uk>

Hello everyone

I am finding complex numbers to be printed oddly in R-alpha.


 > 1e100+1e100i
[1] 1e+100+1e+100i
 > 1e100 + 1e44i
[1] 1e+100+100000000000000008821361405306422640701865984i
 > dput(1e100+1e44i)
1e+100+100000000000000008821361405306422640701865984i
 >

[same thing at home on a linux box]


The first line is what I would expect, the second and third lines  
aren't:
I would prefer "1e100+1e44i".  Is this possible for  R-2.4.0?


best wishes


rksh




 > R.version
                _
platform       powerpc-apple-darwin8.7.0
arch           powerpc
os             darwin8.7.0
system         powerpc, darwin8.7.0
status         alpha
major          2
minor          4.0
year           2006
month          09
day            15
svn rev        39323
language       R
version.string R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-15 r39323)



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[Rd] printing of complex numbers in R-alpha
Robin Hankin