[R] Odd results with %% and conserving memory

[JustinNabble]

Can anyone explain this?

I have a matrix with double components. It's taking up a lot of memory, so I
want to multiply then turn it to integers. I'm pretty certain that there are
only 2 decimal places, but I wanted to check by using modulo. E.g.

mat = matrix(11:50/100, ncol=4,nrow=10) #Matrix with values out to the
hundredths
any((mat * 100)%%1!=0) 

But oddly enough it doesn't work. Even in this simple example the result I
get is this:
             [,1]         [,2] [,3] [,4]
 [1,] 0.000000e+00 0.000000e+00    0    0
 [2,] 0.000000e+00 0.000000e+00    0    0
 [3,] 0.000000e+00 0.000000e+00    0    0
 [4,] 1.776357e-15 0.000000e+00    0    0
 [5,] 0.000000e+00 0.000000e+00    0    0
 [6,] 0.000000e+00 0.000000e+00    0    0
 [7,] 0.000000e+00 0.000000e+00    0    0
 [8,] 0.000000e+00 3.552714e-15    0    0
 [9,] 0.000000e+00 1.000000e+00    0    0
[10,] 0.000000e+00 0.000000e+00    0    0

Two non-zero values are just very small, but one is value is actually 1. Can
someone explain this?

If you pick just a single number you can see some odd results too.

> (4.1*100)%/%1
[1] 409
> (4.1*10*10)%/%1
[1] 410

Shouldn't the result be 410 each time?


I think in this case it should have returned all 0s, and I could have done
something like

newmat = as.integer(mat*100)
dim(newmat) = dim(mat)
rm(mat)

Is there a better way to convert my double matrix to an integer matrix
without losing precision? Or are there better ways to conserve memory? I'm
at the limit.

Thanks,
Justin
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