Dear R community,
> #I'm using scan() to extract a real number from a file with a complex
> structure: 156689504.378.
> #My problem is that the number is coerced into an integer.
> #Do you have any ideas for me on how to "uncoerce"? Here is my code and the
> output:
> #I'm using R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
>
> net3 <- patient.net3 <- scan("C:/temp/samplePHIoutput.txt", skip=23,
> what=list(character(0), character(0), numeric(0)))
Read 1 record
> net3[3]
[[1]]
[1] 156689504
>
> #I need the full number in net[3] and I need the output in vector form, so I
> used unlist().
> workfile <- unlist(net3)
>
> workfile[3]
[1] "156689504.378"
>
> #Just checking character length because I was curious.
> nchar(workfile[3])
[1] 13
>
> #convert character string to a number.
> number <- as.numeric(workfile[3])
>
> mode(number)
[1] "numeric"
> nchar(number)
[1] 13
> number
[1] 156689504
>
>
> #Notice that my original number is Real. I read that the function
> as.numeric() coerces the output to integer.
> #2 questions:
> # 1) How can I uncoerce it?
> # 2) Why does nchar() still see 13 characters but output only 9?
Thank you.
-Nicky
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