On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 07:32:49PM +0100, "Maja Schröter" wrote: > does anybody know how to increase the decimal places that R uses to > calculate something. > > I think that in default R uses 6 decimal places but I need 12.
What you are experiencing is R PRINTING only a certain number of digits. All calcualtions are done at full precision, though. Example: > a=1/3 > a [1] 0.3333333 > print(a) [1] 0.3333333 > print(a, digits=12) [1] 0.333333333333 For more details have a look at ?print and also at ?options and search for 'digits'. cu Philipp -- Dr. Philipp Pagel Tel. +49-8161-71 2131 Dept. of Genome Oriented Bioinformatics Fax. +49-8161-71 2186 Technical University of Munich Science Center Weihenstephan 85350 Freising, Germany and Institute for Bioinformatics / MIPS Tel. +49-89-3187 3675 GSF - National Research Center Fax. +49-89-3187 3585 for Environment and Health Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1 85764 Neuherberg, Germany http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.