Hello,
I'll reply in one mail to all.
Thank you for your suggestions. I already tried Andrews solution with
increasing the digits. In the most extreme case I encountered I had to take
the maximum possible digits in format but it worked.
Tims solution is also a good workaround but in this ca
Hello Tobias,
A factor is basically a way to get a character to behave like an integer. It
consists of an integer with values from 1 to nlev, and a character vector
levels, specifying for each value a level name.
But this means that factors only really make sense with characters, and
anything
resolution than one year sampled in microseconds.
Tim
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From: R-help On Behalf Of Andrew Simmons
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 4:13 AM
To: Tobias Fellinger
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] as.factor and floating point numbers
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R converts
R converts floats to strings with ~15 digits of accuracy, specifically
to avoid differentiating between 1 and 1 + .Machine$double.eps, it is
assumed that small differences such as this are due to rounding errors
and are unimportant.
So, if when making your factor, you want all digits, you could wr
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