Re: [R] Looking for greater floating-point precision

2006-11-17 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/16/06, Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For my calculations, I am needing to use more floating-point precision than the default one of R. Is that possible? And, if yes, how? See package gmp (but that will be slow and cumbersome for all but simple calculations). The real

Re: [R] Looking for greater floating-point precision

2006-11-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 11/17/06, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/16/06, Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For my calculations, I am needing to use more floating-point precision than the default one of R. Is that possible? And, if yes, how? See package gmp (but that will be slow and

Re: [R] Looking for greater floating-point precision

2006-11-17 Thread Martin Maechler
Paul == Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:12:52 + writes: Paul On 11/16/06, Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul wrote: For my calculations, I am needing to use more floating-point precision than the default one of R. Is that possible? And,

Re: [R] Looking for greater floating-point precision

2006-11-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
You might use the idea below together with sum.exact in the caTools package. On 11/17/06, Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul == Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:12:52 + writes: Paul On 11/16/06, Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul wrote:

[R] Looking for greater floating-point precision

2006-11-16 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All For my calculations, I am needing to use more floating-point precision than the default one of R. Is that possible? And, if yes, how? Thanks in advance, Paul __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] Looking for greater floating-point precision

2006-11-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Paul Smith wrote: For my calculations, I am needing to use more floating-point precision than the default one of R. Is that possible? And, if yes, how? See package gmp (but that will be slow and cumbersome for all but simple calculations). The real issue is that R