This is described in ?summary > x <- 22072 > getOption("digits") [1] 7 > summary(x) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. 22070 22070 22070 22070 22070 22070 > options(digits = 10) > summary(x) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. 22072 22072 22072 22072 22072 22072 ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance Kliniekstraat 25 1070 Anderlecht Belgium
To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey 2015-09-18 14:08 GMT+02:00 Praveen Surendran <ps...@medschl.cam.ac.uk>: > Hi all, > > Attached table (that contains summary for a genetic association study) was > read using the command: > > test <- read.table('testDat.txt',header=FALSE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE) > > Results from the summary of the attached table is provided below: > >> summary(test$V5) > Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. > 22070 22070 22070 22070 22070 22070 > > As we can see column 5 of this table contains only one value - 22072 > I am confused as to why I am getting a value 22070 in the summary of this > column. > > I tested this using versions of R including - R version 3.2.1 (2015-06-18) -- > "World-Famous Astronaut" > > Thank you for looking at this issue. > Kind Regards, > > Praveen. > > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.