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From: Jay Kerns <gjkernsysu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: formatting org-babel output
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 09:14:18 -0400
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To: Joe Bogner <joebogner@gmail.com>
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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