On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:46:41AM -0500, Terry Therneau wrote: > Survfit had a bug in some prior releases due to the use of both > unique(times) and table(times); I fixed it by rounding to 15 digits per > the manual page for as.character. Yes, I should ferret out all the > usages instead, but this was fast and it cured the user's problem. > The bug is back! A data set from a local colleage triggers it. > I can send the rda file to anyone who wishes. > > The current code has > digits <- floor((.Machine$double.digits) * > logb(.Machine$double.base,10)) #base 10 digits > Y[,1] <- signif(Y[,1], digits) > > which gives 15 digits; should I subtract one more? > > Should the documentation change? > > In the meantime I'm looking at the more permanent fix of turning time > into a factor, then back at the very end. Because it is a bigger change > the potential for breakage is higer, however.
Can you describe the error in more detail? Is it related to consistency of converting a number to character and back? Petr Savicky. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
