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From: Jay Kerns <gjkernsysu@gmail.com>
To: Joe Bogner <joebogner@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: formatting org-babel output
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 09:14:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFiLVrYQqEVjV37Ccg1R8UwC_sVpnhQyeqwDuXn4BkbMBi917A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEtzV1ZFbMjg3fgYcUMYVUQ2tV5dSiNcE-5yF7w_GYvs3saPfQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Joe,

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Joe Bogner <joebogner@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using org-mode and babel with R for reproducible research. I
> would like certain numbers in the output tables to be formatted for
> easier reading - such as eliminating decimals and adding commas for
> readability.
>

[snip]

Have you considered doing your formatting in R before it ever gets to
the org table?  The format function is very powerful. For instance,

> format(163328361.2423, nsmall = 2, big.mark =",")
[1] "163,328,361.24"

Just an idea.

-- 
Jay

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-22 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-22 11:18 formatting org-babel output Joe Bogner
2013-05-22 13:12 ` Eric Schulte
2013-05-22 16:27   ` Joe Bogner
2013-05-22 13:14 ` Jay Kerns [this message]

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