On Sat, 07 Jan 2023, Sigbert Klinke writes: > Hi, > > has someone experience which routine should be used for > creating fractional numbers? The two conversion > routines deliver different results > >> x <- (0:7)/7 > >> MASS::fractions(x) > > [1] 0 1/7 2/7 3/7 4/7 5/7 6/7 1 > >> gmp::as.bigq(x) > > Big Rational ('bigq') object of length 8: > > [1] 0 2573485501354569/18014398509481984 > 2573485501354569/9007199254740992 > > [4] 7720456504063707/18014398509481984 > 2573485501354569/4503599627370496 > 6433713753386423/9007199254740992 > > [7] 7720456504063707/9007199254740992 1 > > Following the example I would compute my fractional > numbers with MASS::fractions and store them for further > processing as Big Rational. > > Thanks Sigbert >
'gmp' allows you to create the fractions directly: gmp::as.bigq(n = 0:7, d = 7) ## Big Rational ('bigq') object of length 8: ## [1] 0 1/7 2/7 3/7 4/7 5/7 6/7 1 -- Enrico Schumann Lucerne, Switzerland http://enricoschumann.net ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.