[R] Bug in options(digits=n)??

Fri Nov 18 10:28:34 CET 2011

No bug. See ?options or ?print.default and note *significant* digits.

  Hth  --  Gerrit

On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Ravi Kulkarni wrote:

> This is in version 2.10.1
>
>> sqrt(3)
> [1] 1.732051
>> 6/7
> [1] 0.8571429
>> options(digits=3)
>> sqrt(3)
> [1] 1.73
>> 6/7
> [1] 0.857
>> sqrt(7)
> [1] 2.65
>> 7/9
> [1] 0.778
>
> Ravi
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