[R] 'matrix' returns integer instead of decimal

[Ben Bolker]

Brant Inman <brant.inman <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> *As usual, the R-helpers were bang on.  Some package must have modified my
> digits option without me noticing.*

   I'm pretty certain that the arm package is the problem.

> options("digits")
$digits
[1] 7

> library(arm)
Loading required package: MASS
Loading required package: Matrix
Loading required package: lattice
Loading required package: lme4
Loading required package: R2WinBUGS
Loading required package: coda

arm (Version 1.0-38, built: 2007-12-31)
Working directory is /home/ben 
options( digits =  2 )
Loading required package: car
Loading required package: foreign
> options("digits")
$digits
[1] 2

  I've complained about this to the maintainer but not
yet loudly or persistently enough :-)

  cheers
    Ben Bolker