On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:50:57 -0000 (GMT) ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk 
<ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>   as.character(pi)
>   # [1] "3.14159265358979"
> 
> That raises a few questions about "expectations" too!

Expectations can indeed be dangerous. I have been bitten by this one:

as.numeric(as.character(pi))

It works fine in the US, but not in Europe. :)

Hint: Try options(OutDec=",")

-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer

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