[R] problems with read.table

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, [iso-8859-1] andrés sendra wrote:

> When I read a CSV file with containing two real variables with six decimal
> places, "read.table" converts it in a data frame where the numbers are only
> two decimal places.
> Can anybody explain me what should I do to correct this problem?
> Thanks in advance
> Juan Pablo

Give us an example, with full details of your R system?

It seems quite possible that the result has six dp but is being printed to
two dp: I can see no way that read.table (more precisely, type.convert that
it calls) could drop figures (except to stay within the computer accuracy,
but then you would have had trouble writing the cvs file).

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