My plot is showing values on the y-axis in the form of e notation. Which command should I use to get the values in the numeric form. The values in the file used are in the numeric form? Thanks

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To set the use of scientific notation in your entire R session, you can use the scipen option. From the documentation (?options):

‘scipen’: integer. A penalty to be applied when deciding to print numeric values in fixed or exponential notation. Positive values bias towards fixed and negative towards scientific notation: fixed notation will be preferred unless it is more than ‘scipen’ digits wider.

So in essence this value determines how likely it is that scientific notation will be triggered. So to prevent scientific notation, simply use a large positive value like 999:

options(scipen=999)
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Try format function:

> xx = 100000000000 > xx [1] 1e+11 > format(xx, scientific=F) [1] "100000000000"
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