read.table() and precision?
Wojciech Gryc 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
Are you sure? To my knowledge, read.table doesn't round anything, except when running out of bits to store the values in, and 13 decimal places should fit in ordinary double precision variables. Printing the result is another matter. Try playing with the print(mydata, digits=15) and the like.
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