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"So this is at best a matter of opinion, and credentials do matter for opinions." -- Brian Ripley an R fortunes candidate? -- Bert Gunter On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Oliver Czoske wrote: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Uwe Ligges wrote: >> Sebastian Spaeth wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> I have a list with a numerical column "cum_hardreuses". By coincidence I >>> discovered this: >>> >>>> max(libs[,"cum_hardreuses"]) >>> [1] 1793 >>> >>>> summary(libs[,"cum_hardreuses"]) >>> Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. >>> 1 2 4 36 14 1790 >>> >>> (note the max value of 1790) Ouch this is bad! Anything I can do to remedy >>> this? Known bug? >> >> No, it's a feature! See ?summary: printing is done up to 3 significant >> digits by default. > > Unfortunately, '1790' is printed with *four* significant digits, not > three. The correct representation with three significant digits would have > to employ scientific notation, 1.79e3. > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.