If x is the result of your read.table, it is a double precision number (matrix, data.frame, etc.), but by default only up to 7 decimal digits of x are printed, so you do not see the rest of x. Try for example options(digits=15) and see how your x look then.
--- Wojciech Gryc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently working with data that has values as > large as 99,000,000 > but is accurate to 6 decimal places. Unfortunately, > when I load the > data using read.table(), it rounds everything to the > nearest integer. > Is there any way for me to preserve the information > or work with > arbitrarily large floating point numbers? > > Thank you, > Wojciech > > -- > > Five Minutes to Midnight: > Youth on human rights and current affairs > http://www.fiveminutestomidnight.org/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, > reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
