Full_Name: Paul Bailey Version: 2.3.1 OS: OS X (10.4.6) Submission from: (NULL) (128.135.133.123)
according to cat's help file, "'cat' converts numeric/complex vectors in the same way as 'print' (and not in the same way as 'as.character' which is used by the S equivalent), so 'options' '"digits"' and '"scipen"' are relevant." But, run this (what I got after # marks) ------ a <- c(0.1,.0111111111111111) > print(a) [1] 0.10000000 0.01111111 > cat(a) 0.1 0.01111111> ------ I would expect the two to make the same conversion and send the same number of digits (zeros or not) to standard out, OR for the documentation to point out that there are differences in that the same output can lead to different things being sent to standard out. I observed this same problem in Win XP with R 2.3.0 Cheers, Paul ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
