They are rounded to integers because you used as.integer(). Perhaps you meant 
to use as.double()

Michael

On Jan 31, 2012, at 6:21 AM, Marion Wenty <marion.we...@gmail.com> wrote:

> dear r-helpers,
> 
> i created an object named A, which looks like this:
> 
> A <- c("4.4","1.9","4.1")
> 
> now i needed to get numbers instead of characters and for this i used the
> function:
> 
> as.integer(A)
> 
> 
> which resulted in:
> 
> 
> [1] 4 1 4
> 
> 
> My question is, why the numbers are rounded or more impotantly if
> there is a way to keep the decimal numbers?
> 
> 
> Thank you very much for your help in advance!
> 
> 
> Marion
> 
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