[BioC] read.table doesn't read decimal places

[Martin Morgan]

On 07/08/2010 07:36 AM, Stefan Kroeger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> maybe anybody can give me a hint, how to read a csv/tsv file using
> read.table, where the table contains columns with character and double
> values, as in following example:
> 
>        V1      V2      V3
> identifier      8.82427663558682        8.3543072605016 8.43568898178512
> 
> when I use:
>> my_tab <- read.table(infile, header=TRUE, sep="\t",quote="")
> 
> numeric values are cut after 6th decimal place
> identifier      8.824277     8.354307     8.435689

They are displayed but not stored this way; use

  options(digits=12)

etc to see additional detail

Martin


> 
> thanks in advance
>  stefan
> 
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