Re: [Rd] digits in summary.default

2006-09-15 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
Martin Maechler skreiv: > Since I've now seen the code of summary.default in S-plus 6.2, > I'm not in a good position to propose a code change here --- > unless Insightful ``donates'' their 3 lines of implementation to > R  {which I think would be quite fair given the recent flurry of > things the

Re: [Rd] digits in summary.default

2006-09-15 Thread Martin Maechler
> "Simone" == Simone Giannerini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:14:51 +0200 writes: Simone> Dear all, the number of significant digits in Simone> summary default is Simone> digits = max(3, getOption("digits") - 3) Simone> on my platform this results to be

[Rd] digits in summary.default

2006-09-14 Thread Simone Giannerini
Dear all, the number of significant digits in summary default is digits = max(3, getOption("digits") - 3) on my platform this results to be 4. The point is that if you have, say, integer data of magnitude greater than 10^3 the command summary will produce heavily rounded results. A simple examp