[R] Increase R precision

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 27/10/2010 7:49 AM, Alaios wrote:
> Hello everyone.
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> When I execute the following in R
> >  (18-46)/(45-93)
> [1] 0.5833333
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> I get small precision for what I am trying to deal with .  Is it possible to
> increase the precision for this and for other operations?
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> For example openoffice calc for this operation returns
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> 0.58333333333333300000

With options(digits=20) R will print

0.5833333333333334

which looks to me to be slightly more accurate than the OO value.  But 
the internal value is unaffected by the options("digits") setting, it 
only affects printing.

Duncan Murdoch

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