"Richard Saba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There seems to be an error in the summary() function when applied to "ts" > class objects. The results of a call to summary( ), on the R "ts" data set > USAccDeaths , reports the wrong value for Max. The value reported by the > summary function is 11320. The max( ) function returns the correct value > 11317, the July 1993 value. Coercing the data to a data.frame and calling > summary returns the correct max value. A search of R -help found a post in > 2007 that mentioned a problem but attributed it to rounding errors. But this > is too large a difference to account for a simple rounding error. > > Has anyone else encountered the problem? Is there a workaround?
A documented feature of summary() is that it rounds values. In doing so, it may print meaningless digits and thus give the appearance of more precision than is really represented. -- Mike Prager, NOAA, Beaufort, NC * Opinions expressed are personal and not represented otherwise. * Any use of tradenames does not constitute a NOAA endorsement. ______________________________________________ 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.
