Re: [R] function: as.integer

2012-01-31 Thread Marion Wenty
Thank you very much for your help! I was under the impression that numeric vectors and integer vectors are the same! Reading about integers just now I did not understand, what integer vectors are. However, for my problem, I didn't need them, and used as.numeric respectively as.double(). Thanks a

Re: [R] function: as.integer

2012-01-31 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
They are rounded to integers because you used as.integer(). Perhaps you meant to use as.double() Michael On Jan 31, 2012, at 6:21 AM, Marion Wenty wrote: > dear r-helpers, > > i created an object named A, which looks like this: > > A <- c("4.4","1.9","4.1") > > now i needed to get numbers i

Re: [R] function: as.integer

2012-01-31 Thread Rainer Schuermann
> as.numeric(A) [1] 4.4 1.9 4.1 Integers are just integers... On Tuesday 31 January 2012 12:21:48 Marion Wenty wrote: > dear r-helpers, > > i created an object named A, which looks like this: > > A <- c("4.4","1.9","4.1") > > now i needed to get numbers instead of characters and for this i us

[R] function: as.integer

2012-01-31 Thread Marion Wenty
dear r-helpers, i created an object named A, which looks like this: A <- c("4.4","1.9","4.1") now i needed to get numbers instead of characters and for this i used the function: as.integer(A) which resulted in: [1] 4 1 4 My question is, why the numbers are rounded or more impotantly if th