Re: [R] Precision of summary() when summarizing variables in a data frame

Thanks all. No I wasn't aware of the fact that summary is rounding in this case. Da. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Precision-of-summary-when-summarizing-variables-in-a-data-frame-tp3428570p3429022.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

Re: [R] Precision of summary() when summarizing variables in a data frame

jim holtman wrote: They are probably the same. It isjust that summary is printing out 4 significant digits. Try: options(digits = 20) FYI, the default summary method also has its own digits argument. On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Daniel Malter wrote: Hi, I summary() a variable w

Re: [R] Precision of summary() when summarizing variables in a data frame

They are probably the same. It isjust that summary is printing out 4 significant digits. Try: options(digits = 20) On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Daniel Malter wrote: > Hi, > > I summary() a variable with 409908 numeric observations. The variable is > part of a data.frame. The problem is t

[R] Precision of summary() when summarizing variables in a data frame

Hi, I summary() a variable with 409908 numeric observations. The variable is part of a data.frame. The problem is that the min and max returned by summary() do not equal the ones returned by min() and max(). Does anybody know why that is? > min(data$vc) [1] 15452 > max(data$vc) [1] 316148 > sum