How can I paste 100000 without it being shortened to 1e+05? [duplicate]

Answer 1

See ?options, particularly scipen:

R> paste("abc", 100000)
[1] "abc 1e+05"
R> options("scipen"=10)    # set high penalty for scientific display
R> paste("abc", 100000)
[1] "abc 100000"
R> 

Alternatively, control formatting tightly the old-school way via sprintf():

R> sprintf("%s %6d", "abc", 100000)
[1] "abc 100000"
R> 

Answer 2

Alternatively, you can use integers which don't get printed in scientific notation. You can specify that your number is an integer by putting an "L" behind it, or doing as.integer.

> paste("abc",100000L)
[1] "abc 100000"
> paste("abc",as.integer(1000000000))
[1] "abc 1000000000"

Answer 3

Alternatively format may be simpler than sprintf especially when you want to change how decimals are displayed:

> paste("abc",format(100000, scientific = FALSE))
[1] "abc 100000"
> paste("abc",format(0.1234567, scientific = FALSE, digits = 4))
[1] "abc 0.1235"