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[Solved] R: replace the whole part of a number but keep the decimal part unchanged

January 16, 2023 by Kirat

The commenters are right. It doesn’t matter how long the list of numbers is. R can do the operation in one go. x <- c(25.01, 25.8, 25.4) x-15 [1] 10.01 10.80 10.40 If you do run into a situation with many wide-ranging numbers and need to literally keep what comes after the decimal and pick … Read more

[Solved] DecimalFormat to format minutes to hours

December 6, 2022 by Kirat

I need to pass the formatter to some other methods(for formatting Y axis in a bar chart) I’ll leave the implementation details as a learning exercise for you, but one straightforward way would be to create your own subclass of DecimalFormat that overrides the various format methods, does the math, and passes the resulting modified … Read more