[R] reading large numbers

[R. Michael Weylandt]

Like I said on the other thread you started on this same issue, this
is just a print setting, not something with the data.

Consider this:

R>  as.numeric(4398801.3) ==  4398801.3
TRUE

If you want to change this, try

options(digits = 14) # or however many you want to see

And don't jump ship on threads where we've started on a topic, it just
confuses the matter

Michael

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Veerappa Chetty <chettyvk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> This happens when I read in large numbers;
> ------------------------------------
>> as.numeric(4398801.3)
> [1] 4398801
>
>> as.numeric(439880.3)
> [1] 439880.3
> ------------------------------------
> Please help to read in numbers with more than 8 characters!
> Thanks.
> Chetty
>
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