So?
Do you imply that I do not need to change the precision.. and if yes how to 
change the default display settings?

Best regards
Alex





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From: Alain Guillet <alain.guillet@uclouvain.be>

Cc: Rhelp <r-help@r-project.org>
Sent: Wed, October 27, 2010 1:58:46 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Increase R precision

Hi,

It is not a problem of precision but a problem of display.

> options(digits=15)
> (18-46)/(45-93)
[1] 0.583333333333333


Alain


On 27-Oct-10 13:49, Alaios wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> When I execute the following in R
>> (18-46)/(45-93)
> [1] 0.5833333
>
> 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?
>
> For example openoffice calc for this operation returns
>
>
> 0.58333333333333300000
>
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> I
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> I would like to thank you for your help
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