Use colClasses to specify that the column is character so you don't lose any significance. You are close to the 15 digits of significance for a floating point number.
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Santosh Srinivas <santosh.srini...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Group, > > > > I am having a strange problem for this simple task. > > > > I am using read.table to read a plan 3 column CSV file . the file is getting > read . > > But the first column has datetime in the csv file in the following format: > 20110221.114041 > > > > But this is being read as 20110221 only . the time portion (decimal is > missing) in the data frame > > > > Any idea why? > > > > Thanks, > > Santosh > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.