Hi, I have a text (.dat) file, in which each row contains several long numeric strings. One of the strings is 38 digits long, for example:
03200801200801172008011720092904008901 When I read in the data file, this string shows up as 3.200801e+36. To get rid of the scientific notation, I used "options(scipen=999)." When I did this, the scientific notation went away, but the numeric string was incorrect. It showed as: 3200801200801172223262666846080882062 Why would the number be incorrect? All of the other strings within this row are correct. Thanks, Andrew -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/R-numeric-string-problem-tp24940459p24940459.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.