[R] How to improve accuracy of output?

[Andrew Simmons]

I think you have to use print(df$price, digits = 14)

On Tue, May 24, 2022, 10:01 maithili_shiva--- via R-help <
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> Dear Forum
> In my code, I am trying to compute Value at risk.
> I have an issue as mentioned below:
> I have defined
>
>
> options(digits = 14)
> But my output is something like
> >  df$price
> [1] 98.7185273         103.10265923  ............
> However, if use Excel, I get values as
> 98.718527356108 103.10265923704
> and so on.
> Is there any way I can improve on R output accuracy.
> Problem is If I use
> options(digits = 20)
> I still get same prices as when I was using options(digits = 14) and on
> the other hand my confidence level value, which should be equal to 0.99,
> gets distorted to 0.989999999999 impacting  Value at Risk value.
> Please guide
> Regards
> Maithreyi
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