R devel - Feb 2010 - [R] Suppressing scientific notation on plot axis tick labels (PR#14203)

murdoch at stats.uwo.ca wrote:
> On 02/02/2010 6:20 AM, Dimitri Shvorob wrote:
>> Ruben Roa has kindly suggested using 'scipen' option - cf.
>>
>>> fixed notation will be preferred unless it is more than
=C3=A2=E2=82=AC=CB=9Cscipen=C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=84=A2 digits
>>> wider.
>> However,=20
>>
>> options(scipen =3D 50)
>> x  =3D c(1e7, 2e7)
>> barplot(x)=20
>>
>> still does not produce the desired result.
>=20
> This is strange.  I see what you describe the first time through, but
> if I print the option I get the non-scientific labels on the second plot:
>=20
> options(scipen =3D 50)
> x  =3D c(1e7, 2e7)
> barplot(x)
> options("scipen")
> barplot(x)
>=20
> Looks like some sort of caching bug to me.  I don't think I'll have
time=20
> to track this down; this is a crazy week.  I see the same thing in=20
> R-devel as in 2.10.1.
Same thing with, e.g.

x <- c(1e7, 2e7)
options(scipen =3D3)
barplot(x)
x
barplot(x)
options(scipen=3D0)
barplot(x)
x
barplot(x)

> Duncan Murdoch
>=20
> Version:
>   platform =3D i386-pc-mingw32
>   arch =3D i386
>   os =3D mingw32
>   system =3D i386, mingw32
>   status =3D
>   major =3D 2
>   minor =3D 10.1
>   year =3D 2009
>   month =3D 12
>   day =3D 14
>   svn rev =3D 50720
>   language =3D R
>   version.string =3D R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
>=20
> Windows XP (build 2600) Service Pack 3
>=20
> Locale:
>
LC_COLLATE=3DEnglish_Canada.1252;LC_CTYPE=3DEnglish_Canada.1252;LC_MONETARY=3DEnglish_Canada.1252;LC_NUMERIC=3DC;LC_TIME=3DEnglish_Canada.1252
>=20
> Search Path:
>   .GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices,=20
> package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods, Autoloads, package:base
>=20
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