No. >From ?as.integer:
"Note that current implementations of R use 32-bit integers for integer vectors, so the range of representable integers is restricted to about +/-2*10^9: doubles can hold much larger integers exactly. " Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:11 AM, André Luis Neves <andrl...@ualberta.ca> wrote: > Dear all: > > I converted the columns (Baci, Meti, Fungii, Protozoai) into integers > (using excel) and then imported the data (.txt) into R. Interestingly, the > other three variables were loaded as INT, but the 'Baci' one continued as > Num. > > I imported the data using the following command line: > > X <- read.delim(file.choose(), > header = TRUE, > dec = ".") > > Here is the structure of X: > >> str(X) > 'data.frame': 115 obs. of 5 variables: > $ ID : Factor w/ 61 levels "107ZRED","112BLKW",..: 8 12 15 18 26 27 > 29 31 32 36 ... > $ Baci : num 2.90e+12 5.55e+11 9.46e+11 8.13e+11 4.06e+11 ... > $ Meti : int 352645997 334146268 767208656 171567266 462747405 > 414905627 237010514 387480048 214671355 328813226 ... > $ Fungii : int 43645 19009 15998 2189 8972 8240 3133 17922 6156 13746 > ... > $ Protozoai: int 3220523 1851891 3252462 1665675 34123768 23175015 203685 > 4261780 43110492 69802572 ... > > > I need Baci as an integer, and tried to convert it using as.integer > function, but was not successful. > > > Could anyone please help me to solve this problem. > > Thanks, > > > > -- > Andre > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.