Re: [R] very long integers

2008-12-11 Thread Stavros Macrakis
If they are IDs, you presumably don't need to perform arithmetic on them, so why not store them as strings? If you're reading them with read.table, see the colClasses parameter. I am not sure how to do this in RODBC; as.isthere (as in read.table) does not affect columns that look like numbers --

Re: [R] very long integers

2008-12-11 Thread Rory.WINSTON
Have you looked at the R interface to gmp? http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gmp/index.html Rory Winston RBS Global Banking & Markets Office: +44 20 7085 4476 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Robotham Sent: 11 December 2008 17: