[R] Rounding of problem with sum command in R

John Kane jrkrideau at yahoo.ca
Wed Aug 23 01:09:38 CEST 2017


Try options(digits=12)
sum(v)
BTW I don't get the same value as you did when you calculated manually.


On Tuesday, August 22, 2017, 10:39:26 AM EDT, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote:

... and following up on Spencer's answer, see the "digits" argument of
?options and ?print.default.

Cheers,
Bert


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On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Spencer Graves
<spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 2017-08-22 9:26 AM, niharika singhal wrote:
>>
>> Hello I have a vector
>>
>> v=c(0.08844446,0.1744455,0.1379778,0.1209769,0.1573065,0.1134463,0.2074027)
>> when i do
>> sum(v)
>> or
>> 0.08844446+0.1744455+0.1379778+0.1209769+0.1573065+0.1134463+0.2074027
>> i am getting output as 1
>
>
>
> No:  That's only the display:
>
>
>> sum(v)-1
> [1] 1.6e-07
>
>
>      hope this helps.  Spencer
>
>
>> But if i add them manually i get
>> 1.00000026
>> I do not want to round of my value since it effect my code further
>> Can anyone suggest how can i avoid this.
>>
>> Thanks & Regards
>> Niharika Singhal
>>
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