[R] Precision of summary() when summarizing variables in a data frame

[jim holtman]

They are probably the same.  It isjust that summary is printing out 4
significant digits.  Try:

options(digits = 20)



On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Daniel Malter <daniel at umd.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I summary() a variable with 409908 numeric observations. The variable is
> part of a data.frame. The problem is that the min and max returned by
> summary() do not equal the ones returned by min() and max(). Does anybody
> know why that is?
>
>> min(data$vc)
> [1] 15452
>> max(data$vc)
> [1] 316148
>> summary(data$vc)
>   Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
>  15450   21670   40980   55500   63880  316100
>
>
> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
> x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
>
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] sqldf_0.3-5           chron_2.3-39          gsubfn_0.5-5
> [4] proto_0.3-8           RSQLite.extfuns_0.0.1 RSQLite_0.9-4
> [7] DBI_0.2-5
>
> Thanks much,
> Daniel
>
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Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru

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