[R] Increase R precision

[stephen sefick]

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On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Alaios <alaios at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone.
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> When I execute the following in R
>> (18-46)/(45-93)
> [1] 0.5833333
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> I get small precision for what I am trying to deal with .  Is it possible to
> increase the precision for this and for other operations?
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> For example openoffice calc for this operation returns
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> 0.58333333333333300000
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> I would like to thank you for your help
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