Hi Christofer, I don't know what .Net is doing, but for R these globals are dependent on your machine and platform. ?.Machine ?.Platform
Don't know if you can actually hack R into believing otherwise. Did you consider the possibility that the underlying algorithms differ between .Net and R? Cheers Joris On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Christofer Bogaso < bogaso.christo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, recently I was trying evaluation of some complex function having > exactly same starting values as well as same algorithm in both R and .Net > environment. However at the end point I notice that there are some > differences in the reported figures from those two applications (as much as > 0.10%). I feel this is basically due to consideration of different > significance digits in handling floating point numbers between R and .Net. > Therefore I want to fix the number of digits that should be there after "." > in each and every calculations in R. For example suppose I am multiplying > two numbers : 18.456 and 20.345. Ideally it should come as 375.48732. > However I want R to consider only 2 significant digits i.e. 18.46 & 20.35 > and reports 375.66 and should consider this trimmed value for subsequent > calculations.It would be good if there is any possibility to define such > behavior once at the beginning of my R-session. > > Is there any way to do that? > > Thanks, > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Joris Meys Statistical Consultant Ghent University Faculty of Bioscience Engineering Department of Applied mathematics, biometrics and process control Coupure Links 653 B-9000 Gent tel : +32 9 264 59 87 joris.m...@ugent.be ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
