[R] Scientific Notation

[Jeff Newmiller]

While the OP should study up on what numeric values are, context may determine that a different storage mode be used. For example, if the values are intrinsically integers and meet the appropriate magnitude requirements, importing as integer may make sense. Or, if these are identifiers like serial numbers it may make sense to import as character data. To implement those constraints, read up on the colClasses argument to read.csv.

If these values really are intended for computation, the OP needs to differentiate how R prints values by default from how R can be made to export character representations of that internal data. In short, don't get picky about scientific notation until you export the data from R, because floating point data are ALWAYS in scientific notation (base 2) internally.

On October 14, 2018 6:58:05 PM PDT, David L Carlson <dcarlson using tamu.edu> wrote:
>You probably need to read up on the scipen= argument in ?options. What
>is displayed at the console is not what is stored:
>
>
>> x <- 1619052826499
>> print(x)
>[1] 1.619053e+12
>> dput(x)
>1619052826499
>> options(scipen=10)
>> print(x)
>[1] 1619052826499
>
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>David L Carlson
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>Anthropology Department
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>Texas A&M University
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>Subject: [R] Scientific Notation
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>Is there a way to tell R to not import numbers as scientific notation
>(read.csv).  So that 1619052826499 will not be imported as
>1.619053e+12.
>
>Jeff Reichman
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