[R] the biggest integer R can display in complete form but not scientific form

Francisco J. Zagmutt gerifalte28 at hotmail.com
Wed Jun 6 06:26:30 CEST 2007


Also, look at options(digits) to set the number digits to be printed in 
the console, i.e.

 > pi
[1] 3.141593

 > options(digits=22)
 > pi
[1] 3.141592653589793
	

Regards

Francisco


Roland Rau wrote:
> 李俊杰 wrote:
>> Dear R-lister,
>>
>> One of my friends wanted to produce random number which is 64 bits. He did
>> it with Fortune. I think R can do it also. But I don't know how to display a
>> very big integer in the complete form but not scientific form. And what's
>> the biggest integer R can display in complete form ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Li Junjie
>>
>>
>>
> I guess the biggest integer R can represent (if this is what you mean) 
> is machine dependent and you can find it out via:
> 
> .Machine
> help(".Machine")
> 
> I hope this helps,
> Roland
> 
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