[R] Number changed weirdly when converting to numeric
Christofer Bogaso
bog@@o@chr|@to|er @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Sun Mar 9 18:12:47 CET 2025
Hi,
I have below simple conversion
> sprintf("%0.15f", as.numeric("-177253333.333333343267441"))
[1] "-177253333.333333373069763"
I could not figure out why the input and output is different?
Clearly this conversion is incorrect. Is there any way to convert to
numerical properly?
> sessionInfo()
R version 4.4.0 (2024-04-24)
Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20
Running under: macOS 15.3.1
Matrix products: default
BLAS: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib;
LAPACK version 3.12.0
locale:
[1] C/UTF-8/C/C/C/C
time zone: Asia
tzcode source: internal
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.4.0
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