Hi, On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Alaios <ala...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Dear all I have a txt file with the following contents > 1 50.7906430000000 6.06349800000000 > 2 50.7907380000000 6.06347100000000 > 3 50.7910810000000 6.06338000000000 > 4 50.7911890000000 6.06355200000000 > > > I am usind read.table('myfile.txt',sep=" ") > > which unfortunately returns only integers and not doubles that are required > to store the > > 50.7906430000000
Using that exact file you included? If so, then I suspect you are confusing display and storage, though even then my default session doesn't show integers. How do you know that it is returning only integers? What is options()$digits set to? > myfile V1 V2 V3 1 1 50.790643 6.063498 2 2 50.790738 6.063471 3 3 50.791081 6.063380 4 4 50.791189 6.063552 > sprintf("%2.10f", myfile[1,2]) [1] "50.7906430000" > What can I do to force it to store things into doubles? What is str(myfile) ? Sarah -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ 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.