Attaching RData files is unfortunately not supported. Try reading [1] and using dput to share your reproducible data.
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On March 14, 2014 8:03:50 PM PDT, Mike Miller <mbmille...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Fri, 14 Mar 2014, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> On 14-03-14 8:59 PM, Mike Miller wrote: >>> What I'm using: >>> >>> R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) -- "Good Sport" >>> Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing >>> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) >> >> That's not current, but it's not very old... >> >>> According to some docs, options(digits) controls numerical precision >in >>> output of write.table(). I'm using the default value for digits: >>> >>>> getOption("digits") >>> [1] 7 >>> >>> I have a bunch of numbers in a data frame that are only a few digits >to >>> the right of the decimal: >> >> That's not enough to reproduce this. Put together a self-contained >> reproducible example if you're wondering why something behaves as it >> does. With just a bunch of output, you'll just get uninformed >guesses. > > >Thanks for the tip. Here's what I've done: > >> data2 <- data[c(94,120),c(18,20,21)] >> save(data2, file="data2.Rdata") >> q("no") > >$ R >> load("data2.Rdata") >> data2 > V18 V20 V21 >94 0.008 0.008 0.000064 >120 0.023 0.023 0.000529 >> write.table(data2, file="data2.txt", sep="\t", row.names=F, >col.names=F) > >$ cat data2.txt >0.00800000000000001 0.00800000000000001 6.40000000000001e-05 >0.0229999999999999 0.0229999999999999 0.000528999999999996 > >The data2.Rdata file is attached to this message. > >I guess that is enough to reproduce this exact finding. I don't know >how >it works in general. > >I don't have a newer version of R available right now. It did the same > >thing on an older version (2.15.1). > >Interestingly, on a different machine with an even older version >(2.12.2) >I see something a little different: > >0.008 0.008 6.40000000000001e-05 >0.0229999999999999 0.0229999999999999 0.000528999999999996 > >Best, >Mike > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >______________________________________________ >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. ______________________________________________ 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.