Preserving large numbers

Question

I am trying to read a CSV file that has barcodes in the first column, but when R gets it into a data.frame, it converts 1665535004661 to 1.67E+12.<

Answer 1

You can use the numerals arguments when you are doing read.csv. So for example:

read.csv(x, sep = ";", numerals = c("no.loss")) Where x is your data.

This preserves the value of the long integers and doesn't mess with their representation when you import the data.