Question

Using the new dollar_format() syntax in ggplot, I get unexpected behavior. Is there (yet) another argument to pass to make the sci-not go away?

x <- seq(0,100000,10000)
[1] 0e+00 1e+04 2e+04 3e+04 4e+04 5e+04 6e+04 7e+04 8e+04 9e+04 1e+05
dollar(x)
[1] "$0e+00" "$1e+04" "$2e+04" "$3e+04" "$4e+04" "$5e+04" "$6e+04" "$7e+04" "$8e+04" "$9e+04" "$1e+05"

Answer 1

Note that the dollar function is now in the scales package. You can keep it from switching to scientific notation using the scipen option. Note that this will affect ALL your output, not just this formatting.

> options(scipen=5)
> dollar(x)
 [1] "$0"       "$10,000"  "$20,000"  "$30,000"  "$40,000"  "$50,000"  "$60,000" 
 [8] "$70,000"  "$80,000"  "$90,000"  "$100,000"

As @joran said, though, dollar probably should not allow scientific notation at all.