When working with data (e.g., in data.frame) the user can control displaying digits by using
options(digits=3)
and listing the data.frame like this.
ttf.all
When the user needs to paste the data in Excell like this
write.table(ttf.all, 'clipboard', sep='\t',row.names=F)
The digits parameter is ignored and numbers are not rounded.
See nice output
> ttf.all
year V1.x.x V1.y.x ratio1 V1.x.y V1.y.y ratioR V1.x.x V1.y.x ratioAL V1.x.y V1.y.y ratioRL
1 2006 227 645 35.2 67 645 10.4 150 645 23.3 53 645 8.22
2 2007 639 1645 38.8 292 1645 17.8 384 1645 23.3 137 1645 8.33
3 2008 1531 3150 48.6 982 3150 31.2 755 3150 24.0 235 3150 7.46
4 2009 1625 3467 46.9 1026 3467 29.6 779 3467 22.5 222 3467 6.40
But what is in excel (clipboard) is not rounded. How to control in in write.table()?
You can use the function format() as in:
write.table(format(ttf.all, digits=2), 'clipboard', sep='\t',row.names=F)
format() is a generic function that has methods for many classes, including data.frames. Unlike round(), it won't throw an error if your dataframe is not all numeric. For more details on the formatting options, see the help file via ?format