[R] summary() and range(): inconsistency?
Ben Bolker
ben at zoo.ufl.edu
Mon Nov 26 17:54:38 CET 2001
I think this has come up before -- try looking at the digits argument --
I think 11675 is getting round to 4 sig. dig.
Ben
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Agustin Lobo wrote:
>
> I've found the following and I'm kind
> of confused:
>
> > summary(delme)
> Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
> 1 2950 5699 5756 8572 11680
>
> > range(delme)
> [1] 1 11675
>
>
> summary() and range() give different Max. value for the same
> vector!
>
>
> Agus
>
> Dr. Agustin Lobo
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