Message-ID: <CAAmySGNkaBK7qO+O8Ee55RGTft2P3LOyfrDBPaRAT89tHgWmzw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2011-10-12T19:52:52Z
From: R. Michael Weylandt
Subject: reading large numbers
In-Reply-To: <CAFpsATZYC+ovJj-PCuTMc2eGwPkvPrymgqdJeGHoosSF1mOC4Q@mail.gmail.com>
Like I said on the other thread you started on this same issue, this
is just a print setting, not something with the data.
Consider this:
R> as.numeric(4398801.3) == 4398801.3
TRUE
If you want to change this, try
options(digits = 14) # or however many you want to see
And don't jump ship on threads where we've started on a topic, it just
confuses the matter
Michael
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Veerappa Chetty <chettyvk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> This happens when I read in large numbers;
> ------------------------------------
>> as.numeric(4398801.3)
> [1] 4398801
>
>> as.numeric(439880.3)
> [1] 439880.3
> ------------------------------------
> Please help to read in numbers with more than 8 characters!
> Thanks.
> Chetty
>
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