Round Half Away from Zero — Round • ncar

This is an ordinary rounding function, so called round half away from zero

Round(x, n = 0)

Arguments

x	numeric to be rounded
n	indicating decimal digits

Details

The function round in R base rounds to the even number, i.e. round(0.5) is 0 not 1. If you want rounding 0.5 be 1, you can use this Round function. This function is for the consistency with other software like MS-Excel, SAS.

Value

ordinarily rounded value

References

See wikipedia subject "Rounding"

Author

Kyun-Seop Bae <k@acr.kr>

Examples

(x = 1:10 - 0.5)
#>  [1] 0.5 1.5 2.5 3.5 4.5 5.5 6.5 7.5 8.5 9.5
Round(x)
#>  [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10
round(x) # compare with the above
#>  [1]  0  2  2  4  4  6  6  8  8 10