tables package - error message of "duplicate values"
On 13-04-23 4:05 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
Dear David, I'm once again facing the same issue as Santosh. On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 12:15 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
On Apr 19, 2013, at 2:03 PM, Santosh wrote:
Rounding was done to replicate the problem I faced in the original data set...
I got an error every time I tried to use digits=0. My basic rule is that if a parameter choice consistently errors out ... stop using it. I'm fundamentally a pragmatist.
I would like to use digits=0, but it always errors out. I have a hunch that this might be linked to the following in ?format: digits how many significant digits are to be used for numeric and complex x. The default, NULL, uses getOption(digits). This is a suggestion: enough decimal places will be used so that the smallest (in magnitude) number has this many significant digits, and also to satisfy nsmall. (For the interpretation for complex numbers see signif.) nsmall the minimum number of digits to the right of the decimal point in formatting real/complex numbers in non-scientific formats. Allowed values are 0 <= nsmall <= 20. But using Format(digits=0, nsmall=0) doesn't solve the problem.
It doesn't make sense to use digits=0. This has nothing to do with the tables package, it's the format() function that refuses to print numbers with no significant digits. The smallest sensible value would be digits=1. Duncan Murdoch