Analysis in R: Commands for truncating and raising decimal points

This is an introduction to commands related to truncating and raising decimal points that are often forgotten. We hope this will help you.

The execution command is confirmed with R version 4.2.1.

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See the comments and command help for details.

#Round command
#Round to the number specified by the digits option
round(11.12345, digits = 4)
[1] 11.1235

#Ceiling command
#Smallest integer not less than the specified value (integer part)
ceiling(11.000001)
[1] 12

#Floor command
#Floor command #maximum integer that will not be less than the specified value (integer part)
floor(11.000001)
[1] 11

#Trunc command
#Truncate the decimal part
trunc(11.11111)
[1] 11

#Format command
#Set the number of digits: nsmall option
format(11.000001, nsmall = 3)
[1] "11.000"

#Additional
#Use string::str_pad command
#Add zeros at the beginning to align :pad option to specify what to add at the beginning
#Install the tidyverse package if not already installed
if(!require("tidyverse", quiet = TRUE)){ install.packages("tidyverse")
  install.packages("tidyverse");require("tidyverse")
}
11 %>% str_pad(4, pad = 0)
[1] "0011"

#Add 0 to the decimal point
#In this example, add 4 decimal places
#Note that it may not round up to the nearest integer
sprintf(11.10005, fmt = '%#.4f')
[1] "11.1000"