R: Format P Values (original) (raw)

format.pval {base} R Documentation

Description

format.pval is intended for formatting p-values.

Usage

format.pval(pv, digits = max(1, getOption("digits") - 2),
            eps = .Machine$double.eps, na.form = "NA", ...)

Arguments

pv a numeric vector.
digits how many significant digits are to be used.
eps a numerical tolerance: see ‘Details’.
na.form character representation of NAs.
... further arguments to be passed to formatsuch as nsmall.

Details

format.pval is mainly an auxiliary function for[print.summary.lm](../../stats/html/summary.lm.html) etc., and does separate formatting for fixed, floating point and very small values; those less thaneps are formatted as "< [eps]" (where ‘[eps]’ stands for format(eps, digits)).

Value

A character vector.

Examples

format.pval(c(stats::runif(5), pi^-100, NA))
format.pval(c(0.1, 0.0001, 1e-27))

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