How do I stop scientific notation in polar plot axes

I'm using the polarplot function and i get my nice plot but the "radius" values are printing in scientific notation. I found the rtickformat funtion to allow me to set the precision of the tick marks but when I use the formatting of rtickformat('%5.3f') to change the tick marks it gives me tick marks with labels like 2.000 x 10^-3 instead of 0.002 which is what I would prefer.

Does anyone know how I can make it turn off the scientific notation?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

ax = gca;
ax.RAxis.Exponent = 0;

[Adam Danz]

Another way to get the axis handle without relying on the current axis.

h = polarplot(theta,rho);
ax = h.Parent; 

[Michael]

Thanks so much to both of you!!! That was perfect!