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Dear R users and developers:<br>
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I got this message when I try to make the summary of a numeric variable,<br>
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<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">> summary(Dep)<br>
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Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. <br>
0.000e+00 1.192e+07 2.739e+07 6.538e+07 1.858e+09 <br>
Warning message: <br>
Integer overflow in sum(.); use sum(as.numeric(.)) <br>
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and it fails to make the sum (for calculate the mean), but I don't understand
the "Integer overflow"<br>
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If I type the following command,<br>
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<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">> summary(as.numeric(Dep))<br>
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. <br>
0.000e+00 1.192e+07 2.739e+07 5.306e+07 6.538e+07 1.858e+09 <br>
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it works fine.... but I still don't undertand way it doesn't work without<br>
the "as.numeric" coerce, when other functions like "sd()" worked fine.<br>
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Thank you very much for your advice<br>
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Kenneth Cabrera<br>
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P.S.: The length of Dep is 5297<br>
And I am working on W2K in R1.4.1. version.<br>
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