[R] How to increase decimal places

[Philipp Pagel]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 07:32:49PM +0100, "Maja Schröter" wrote:
> does anybody know how to increase the decimal places that R uses to
> calculate something.
> 
> I think that in default R uses 6 decimal places but I need 12.

What you are experiencing is R PRINTING only a certain number of digits.
All calcualtions are done at full precision, though. 

Example:

> a=1/3
> a
[1] 0.3333333
> print(a)
[1] 0.3333333
> print(a, digits=12)
[1] 0.333333333333

For more details have a look at ?print and also at ?options and search
for 'digits'.

cu
	Philipp

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