Hello, maybe anybody can give me a hint, how to read a csv/tsv file using read.table, where the table contains columns with character and double values, as in following example: ? ? ? ?V1 ? ? ?V2 ? ? ?V3 identifier ? ? ?8.82427663558682 ? ? ? ?8.3543072605016 8.43568898178512 when I use: > my_tab <- read.table(infile, header=TRUE, sep="\t",quote="") numeric values are cut after 6th decimal place identifier ? ? ?8.824277 ? ? 8.354307 ? ? 8.435689 thanks in advance ?stefan

On 07/08/2010 07:36 AM, Stefan Kroeger wrote: > Hello, > > maybe anybody can give me a hint, how to read a csv/tsv file using > read.table, where the table contains columns with character and double > values, as in following example: > > V1 V2 V3 > identifier 8.82427663558682 8.3543072605016 8.43568898178512 > > when I use: >> my_tab <- read.table(infile, header=TRUE, sep="\t",quote="") > > numeric values are cut after 6th decimal place > identifier 8.824277 8.354307 8.435689 They are displayed but not stored this way; use options(digits=12) etc to see additional detail Martin > > thanks in advance > stefan > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor -- Martin Morgan Computational Biology / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N. PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109 Location: Arnold Building M1 B861 Phone: (206) 667-2793