[R] pb of importation data: truncation...

[Douglas Bates]

Pinaud David <puffin at cebc.cnrs.fr> writes:

> I'm  importing some data (with read.table, file ".txt") but I have some
> problem: R truncates my numeric data at 2 digits during the
> importation... It's the first time that I see that.

Are you sure that R is truncating the data itself or just truncating
the printed representation of the data?  The value that is printed is
truncated according to the setting of the "digits" option.

Use the dput function to check on the actual value that is stored.
For example

> pi
[1] 3.141593
> dput(pi)
3.14159265358979