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...el Mac, and on a Ubuntu machine, but the problem I see is the same. I noticed the following behaviour: 407585.91 * 0.8 [1] 326068.7 -- the right asnwer is 326068.728 round(407585.91 * 0.8, 2) [1] 326068.7 -- same issue 407585.91/100 [1] 4075.859 -- the right answer is 4075.8591 I have no saved .Rwhatever in my environment, and I never set any option to have such strange rounding. I'm obviously missing something, and I'd appreciate suggestions. Best, Federico -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, Lo...

I mostly use Windows, but I am slowly learning to use Linux on my second machine. (It came in handy a couple of weeks ago when I had two files to sort, each of length about 2 million. Windows sort died after an hour, but the Linux sorts took 2-3 minutes each.) Anyway the last time I tried installing R in Linux I found out from a helpful computer support person that with my distribution

...---------------- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:10:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Bill Simpson <wsi at gcal.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [R] Installing R on Slackware Linux Become root: su - Put the new *.tgz file the same place as the old one was (something like /usr/local or /usr/local/src). Unpack it: tar zxvf Rwhatever.tgz Then read INSTALL for detailed instructions. Bill - -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the &quo...

...el Mac, and on a Ubuntu machine, but the problem I see is the same. I noticed the following behaviour: 407585.91 * 0.8 [1] 326068.7 -- the right asnwer is 326068.728 round(407585.91 * 0.8, 2) [1] 326068.7 -- same issue 407585.91/100 [1] 4075.859 -- the right answer is 4075.8591 I have no saved .Rwhatever in my environment, and I never set any option to have such strange rounding. I'm obviously missing something, and I'd appreciate suggestions. Best, Federico -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, Lo...