[R] summary() and range(): inconsistency?

[Ben Bolker]

  I think this has come up before -- try looking at the digits argument --
I think 11675 is getting round to 4 sig. dig.

  Ben

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Agustin Lobo wrote:

>
> I've found the following and I'm kind
> of confused:
>
> > summary(delme)
>    Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
>       1    2950    5699    5756    8572   11680
>
> > range(delme)
> [1]     1 11675
>
>
> summary() and range()  give different Max. value for the same
> vector!
>
>
> Agus
>
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