Ok. Array or Dataframe.. does not matter.. as long as I can extract the required dataelement. :-) Can you please send me pointer or reference to read about usage of "fancy floating points" or "how to declare variables storing different datatypes"?
Thannk you. Regards, suresh Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote: > > On 2/4/2009 8:57 AM, Suresh_FSFM wrote: >> Dear R- Experts, >> Seek your help. >> >> I want to creata data as follows. >> Ref_array with 4 columns. >> 1st column should store data of precision: 8.4 (i.e. 8 digits before >> decimal >> point and 4 digits after decimal points) >> 2nd column: should store data of type date "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss" >> 3rd column: only integer value. No decimal points >> 4th column: percentage values > > In R, an array is all one data type, so you can't do that. However, you > can have a dataframe that comes close: but there is no special type for > 8.4 or percentage values, you'd need to use floating point (or fancy > handling of integers) for those. > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-declare-an-array-with-columns-storing-different-datatypes-precision-tp21830977p21832569.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
