[R] Machine accurancy.

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Kenneth Cabrera wrote:

> >
> >
> >
> >Why do you want to do this?  R's precision is quite sufficient for almost
> >all scientific purposes, if used correctly.
> >
> integer.max              2147483647
>
>
> I just want to use a bigger integer limit number for specific integer
> process.

Use doubles: they represent much larger integers exactly.

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