read.table with double precision
I'm having trouble replicating/understanding why that would happen since I do it all the time. The only thing that raises a hint of suspicion is using the blank space separator , but I'm pretty sure that's fine What does str() give? Possibly factors? If you are sure that's happening as described, can you send a sample .txt ( won't get scrubbed) and your exact import code? Michael
On Nov 17, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Alaios <alaios at yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear all I have a txt file with the following contents
1 50.7906430000000 6.06349800000000
2 50.7907380000000 6.06347100000000
3 50.7910810000000 6.06338000000000
4 50.7911890000000 6.06355200000000
I am usind read.table('myfile.txt',sep=" ")
which unfortunately returns only integers and not doubles that are required to store the?
50.7906430000000
What can I do to force it to store things into doubles?
B.R
Alex
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