I am trying to use vroom::vroom_write to write a tibble to a text file. Within my R session, I see that the third column of my tibble has some zeros. When I examine the text file, I see that some of zeros are written as negative zero.
Here is example code to reproduce what I see.
library(magrittr)
set.seed(2022-06-07)
dat <- tibble::tibble(rand = rnorm(n = 10, mean = 0, sd = 1), indicator = rbinom(n = 10, size = 1, prob = 0.5), product = rand * indicator)
dat %>%
vroom::vroom_write(file = "out.txt")
Here is dat in my R session.
> dat
# A tibble: 10 × 3
rand indicator product
<dbl> <int> <dbl>
1 -0.851 1 -0.851
2 0.274 1 0.274
3 -0.179 1 -0.179
4 -0.257 0 0
5 1.33 0 0
6 -1.85 0 0
7 0.191 1 0.191
8 0.441 0 0
9 -1.46 0 0
10 -0.754 0 0
>
Here is the file out.txt.
rand indicator product
-0.8514459712815987 1 -0.8514459712815987
0.2738400972346478 1 0.2738400972346478
-0.17889364131136923 1 -0.17889364131136923
-0.25728795761508944 0 -0
1.3288498659722705 0 0
-1.847720986710459 0 -0
0.19140525644162554 1 0.19140525644162554
0.44121526714638787 0 0
-1.4602030403350934 0 -0
-0.7538551785550484 0 -0
Is this a known problem for vroom? Is there a solution? I'd like to avoid having negative zeros in my file out.txt.
Here is my R session info.
devtools::session_info()
─ Session info ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
setting value
version R version 4.2.0 (2022-04-22)
os Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
system x86_64, linux-gnu
ui RStudio
language (EN)
collate en_US.UTF-8
ctype en_US.UTF-8
tz America/Detroit
date 2022-06-07
rstudio 2022.02.2+485 Prairie Trillium (server)
pandoc 2.17.1.1 @ /usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin/quarto/bin/ (via rmarkdown)
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dplyr 1.0.9 2022-04-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.2.0)
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[1] /net/mulan/home/fredboe/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0
[2] /usr/local/lib/R/site-library
[3] /net/mario/cluster/lib/R/site-library-bionic-40
[4] /usr/lib/R/site-library
[5] /usr/lib/R/library
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>
This is likely a precision issue; before you write the file, you might try to replace values that are "near" 0 with 0, using
near()