Long Numbers As A Character String

Question

As part of my dataset, one of the columns is a series of 24-digit numbers.

Example:

bigonumber <- 429382748394831049284934

When

Answer 1

You can specify colClasses on your fread or read.csv statement.

bignums
429382748394831049284934
429382748394831049284935
429382748394831049284936
429382748394831049284937
429382748394831049284938
429382748394831049284939

bignums <- read.csv("~/Desktop/bignums.txt", sep="", colClasses = 'character')