On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Robin Hankin wrote:
> Hi
>
> I used write() the other day to save some results.
Why not save()? It is the only way to preserve the results exactly.
> It seems that write() does not record the full precision of
> the objects being written:
>
>
> > write(pi,file="~/f",ncolumns=1)
> > pi.saved <- scan("~/f")
> Read 1 item
> > dput(pi)
> 3.14159265358979
> > dput(pi.saved)
> 3.141593
> > pi-pi.saved
> [1] -3.464102e-07
> >
>
>
> This difficulty was particularly difficult to find because pi.saved
> *looks*
> the same as pi.
>
>
>
> What's going on here?
See ?cat, for which write is a wrapper.
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