jim holtman wrote:
They are probably the same. It isjust that summary is printing out 4
significant digits. Try:
options(digits = 20)
FYI, the default summary method also has its own digits argument.
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Daniel Malter <dan...@umd.edu> wrote:
Hi,
I summary() a variable with 409908 numeric observations. The variable is
part of a data.frame. The problem is that the min and max returned by
summary() do not equal the ones returned by min() and max(). Does anybody
know why that is?
min(data$vc)
[1] 15452
max(data$vc)
[1] 316148
summary(data$vc)
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
15450 21670 40980 55500 63880 316100
sessionInfo()
R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] sqldf_0.3-5 chron_2.3-39 gsubfn_0.5-5
[4] proto_0.3-8 RSQLite.extfuns_0.0.1 RSQLite_0.9-4
[7] DBI_0.2-5
Thanks much,
Daniel
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