Message-ID: <3EA5722B.4050800@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 2003-04-22T16:47:39Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: read.table and decimals
In-Reply-To: <3EA55676.3070101@agr.kuleuven.ac.be>
Kris Nackaerts wrote:
> Dear,
>
> We are trying to read an asciifile using the read.table() function and
> discovered that only 4 decimals are read. Any idea how to get more
> decimals?
It reads *all* decimals, if the format is specified correctly.
I guess you printed the read in data in an inappropriate way to see full
accuracy.
Try to print it with
format(x, digits=22)
and see that everythinbg was read in ....
Uwe Ligges