On 18 Dec 2006, at 08:50, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > 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: >> >> [snip] >> >> What's going on here? > > See ?cat, for which write is a wrapper. > >
Professor Ripley Thanks for this. I'll use save() instead. Also, could we clarify this issue in the write() manpage? Although its behaviour is clear from the code, I'm sure other R users would appreciate a hint or a warning that precision might be lost. It cost me a few hours of worry last night! -- Robin Hankin Uncertainty Analyst National Oceanography Centre, Southampton European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK tel 023-8059-7743 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
