I believe you were already answered. Nothing is happening to your numbers. The default digits used to *display* your numbers is too small to show all the decimal places.
There's nothing to worry about; full precision is being used for all calculations. But if for some reason you'd like to see them, you can change the default digits used for printing: > as.numeric(4398801.3) [1] 4398801 > as.numeric(439880.3) [1] 439880.3 > > options()$digits [1] 7 > > options(digits=14) > > as.numeric(4398801.3) [1] 4398801.3 > as.numeric(439880.3) [1] 439880.3 Sarah On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Veerappa Chetty <chett...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > This happens when I read in large numbers; > ------------------------------------ >> as.numeric(4398801.3) > [1] 4398801 > >> as.numeric(439880.3) > [1] 439880.3 > ------------------------------------ > Please help to read in numbers with more than 8 characters! > Thanks. > Chetty > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
