On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Henrique Dallazuanna wrote: > require(MASS) > ?as.fractions > as.fractions(1/2+1/8)
I think Federico wanted 1/as.fractions(2) + 1/as.fractions(8) that is avoiding computing 1/8 in float (although it is exact). You might be better off with package gmp: > 1/as.bigq(2) + 1/as.bigq(8) [1] "5/8" allows you to handle arbitrarily large fractions. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [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.
