On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 23:42 -0500, Alexy Khrabrov wrote: > I've had a very long file written out by R with write.table, with > fields of time values, converted from POSIXlt as.numeric. Among 2.5 > million values, very few had 6 trailing zeroes, and those were output > in scientific notation as in the subject. Is this the default > behavior for long integers, and how can it be turned off (with all > digits for any integer field in write.table)? This is important to > interoperate with other languages through such text dumps, as some do > not expect scientific notation for integers, only for floats. > > Cheers, > Alexy
Alexy If I understood your problem you have something like this as.numeric(12345678912345678) [1] 1.234568e+16 In this case your solution is using format, like this format(as.numeric(12345678912345678),scientific=FALSE) [1] "12345678912345678 -- Bernardo Rangel Tura, M.D,MPH,Ph.D National Institute of Cardiology Brazil ______________________________________________ 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.
