read.table() and precision?
If x is the result of your read.table, it is a double precision number (matrix, data.frame, etc.), but by default only up to 7 decimal digits of x are printed, so you do not see the rest of x. Try for example options(digits=15) and see how your x look then.
--- Wojciech Gryc <wojciech at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, I'm currently working with data that has values as large as 99,000,000 but is accurate to 6 decimal places. Unfortunately, when I load the data using read.table(), it rounds everything to the nearest integer. Is there any way for me to preserve the information or work with arbitrarily large floating point numbers? Thank you, Wojciech -- Five Minutes to Midnight: Youth on human rights and current affairs http://www.fiveminutestomidnight.org/
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