Weird error in R when importing (64-bit) integer with many digits

Question

I am importing a csv that has a single column which contains very long integers (for example: 2121020101132507598)

a<-read.csv(\'temp.csv\',as.is=T

Answer 1

The maximum value of a 32-bit signed integer is 2,147,483,647. Your numbers are much larger.

Try importing them as floating point values instead.

There4 are a few caveats to be aware of when dealing with floating point arithmetic in R or any other language:

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2009/11/floatingpoint-errors-explained.html

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2009/03/when-is-a-zero-not-a-zero.html

http://floating-point-gui.de/basic/