Re: [R] problem with the precision of numbers

2010-01-25 Thread kayj
Hi All, thank you all for your help. I have tried Bill's script and it works! so I am trying to think what was the problem and it looks like it i sthe precision. so you defined a function of the precision and evaluates at precision=500. Bill, I was wondering how did you choose 500? is it

Re: [R] problem with the precision of numbers

2010-01-25 Thread William Dunlap
-Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of kayj Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 8:04 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] problem with the precision of numbers Hi All, thank you all for your help. I have

Re: [R] problem with the precision of numbers

2010-01-25 Thread Hans W Borchers
kayj kjaja27 at yahoo.com writes: Hi All, thank you all for your help. I have tried Bill's script and it works! so I am trying to think what was the problem and it looks like it i sthe precision. so you defined a function of the precision and evaluates at precision=500. Bill, I was

[R] problem with the precision of numbers

2010-01-24 Thread kayj
Hi All, I was wondering if R can deal with high precsion numbers, below is an example that I tried on using R and Maple where I got different results. I was not able to use the r-bc package in R, instead I used the Rmpfr package, below are both R and Maple results library(Rmpfr)

Re: [R] problem with the precision of numbers

2010-01-24 Thread Ted Harding
On 24-Jan-10 22:24:10, kayj wrote: Hi All, I was wondering if R can deal with high precsion numbers, below is an example that I tried on using R and Maple where I got different results. I was not able to use the r-bc package in R, instead I used the Rmpfr package, below are both R and

Re: [R] problem with the precision of numbers

2010-01-24 Thread William Dunlap
-Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of kayj Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 2:24 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] problem with the precision of numbers Hi All, I was wondering if R can deal with high

Re: [R] problem with the precision of numbers

2010-01-24 Thread Ted Harding
On 25-Jan-10 00:12:29, William Dunlap wrote: -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of kayj Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 2:24 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] problem with the precision of numbers Hi All

Re: [R] problem with the precision of numbers

2010-01-24 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I have added a FAQ to the r-bc home page which should help address your problems in getting bc to work. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:24 PM, kayj kjaj...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi All, I was wondering if R can deal with high precsion numbers, below is an example that I tried on using R and Maple where

[R] problem with the precision of numbers

2010-01-19 Thread kayj
Hi All, I was wodering if it is possible to increase the precision using R. I ran the script below in R and MAPLE and I got different results when k is large. Any idea how to fix this problem? thanks for your help for (k in 0:2000){ s=0 for(i in 0:k){ s=s+((-1)^i)*3456*(1+i*1/2000)^3000 }

Re: [R] problem with the precision of numbers

2010-01-19 Thread Ben Bolker
kayj kjaja27 at yahoo.com writes: Hi All, I was wodering if it is possible to increase the precision using R. I ran the script below in R and MAPLE and I got different results when k is large. Any idea how to fix this problem? thanks for your help for (k in 0:2000){ s=0 for(i in

Re: [R] problem with the precision of numbers

2010-01-19 Thread Ted Harding
On 19-Jan-10 17:55:43, Ben Bolker wrote: kayj kjaja27 at yahoo.com writes: Hi All, I was wodering if it is possible to increase the precision using R. I ran the script below in R and MAPLE and I got different results when k is large. Any idea how to fix this problem? thanks for your help

Re: [R] problem with the precision of numbers

2010-01-19 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Ted Harding ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: On 19-Jan-10 17:55:43, Ben Bolker wrote: kayj kjaja27 at yahoo.com writes: Hi All, I was wodering if it is possible to increase the precision using R. I ran the script below in R and MAPLE and I got different

Re: [R] problem with the precision of numbers

2010-01-19 Thread Ted Harding
On 19-Jan-10 18:48:47, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Ted Harding ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: On 19-Jan-10 17:55:43, Ben Bolker wrote: kayj kjaja27 at yahoo.com writes: Hi All, I was wodering if it is possible to increase the precision using R. I ran the

Re: [R] problem with the precision of numbers

2010-01-19 Thread Hans W Borchers
Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk writes: [...] I suspect this is an invented computation -- the 3456 strikes me as unlikely (it reminds me of my habitual illustrative use of set.seed(54321)). There is a definite problem with the development given by kayj. When k=2000 and i=k, the

Re: [R] problem with the precision of numbers

2010-01-19 Thread kayj
Hi , Thanks for your help, I have been trying to use the bc package but I am getting the following error Error in system(cmd, input = input, intern = TRUE) : -l not found any idea?? -- View this message in context:

Re: [R] problem with the precision of numbers

2010-01-19 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Maybe bc(..., args = ) or perhaps install a more standard version of bc. See links at http://r-bc.googlecode.com On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:43 PM, kayj kjaj...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi , Thanks for your help, I have been trying to use the bc package but I am getting the following error Error in