Re: [Gretl-users] r session bug more simply

I think it depends on the R version. In R 3.1.0 there's a "new feature" (in fact, a backwardly incompatible change) described as follows: "type.convert() (and hence by default read.table()) returns a character vector or factor when representing a numeric input as a double would lose accuracy." So if we happen to print data for consumption by R with more than (I suppose) 16 significant digits it gets silently borked.