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

[Thomas Lumley]

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!

summary reports only a limited number of significant digits (4, by
default) and
R> signif(11675,4)
[1] 11680

See help(summary) for how to adjust this default.

	-thomas


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