[Rd] round, unique and factor

[Petr Savicky]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:46:41AM -0500, Terry Therneau wrote:
>  Survfit had a bug in some prior releases due to the use of both
> unique(times) and table(times); I fixed it by rounding to 15 digits per
> the manual page for as.character.  Yes, I should ferret out all the
> usages instead, but this was fast and it cured the user's problem.
>   The bug is back!  A data set from a local colleage triggers it.  
> I can send the rda file to anyone who wishes.  
> 
>  The current code has
>      digits <- floor((.Machine$double.digits) * 
>                     logb(.Machine$double.base,10)) #base 10 digits
>      Y[,1] <- signif(Y[,1], digits)
> 
> which gives 15 digits; should I subtract one more?
>   
> Should the documentation change?
> 
> In the meantime I'm looking at the more permanent fix of turning time
> into a factor, then back at the very end.  Because it is a bigger change
> the potential for breakage is higer, however.

Can you describe the error in more detail? Is it related to consistency
of converting a number to character and back?

Petr Savicky.