Zack Weinberg wrote: > On 5/22/07, Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Zack Weinberg wrote: >> > >> > I'd really appreciate some way of forcing R to print enough digits to >> > represent every possible IEEE double value. I would also argue that >> > this should be the default behavior of dump(), write.table() and >> > friends, and save(...,ascii=TRUE), to prevent data loss. >> >> Example: >> >> formatC(exp(1), digits=100, width=-1) > > Well, okay, now what about dump, write.table, save, etc?
save() uses the required precision. For exp(1) it stores "2.718281828459045" and you will see that exp(1) == 2.718281828459045 is TRUE Uwe Ligges > zw ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel