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On loading a yaml file with values such as 25.0, the .0 is ignored and what I get is 25. Is it possible to force yaml to consider the value as it is without manipulating the data? I have tried enclosing the values in single/double quotes, but that does not work.
[Edit]: I am using the yaml parser package for R programming language. The data type returned is double. If I set the value to 25.2, I get back the same value. How can I force YAML/R to read the the information in YAML as it is.
Your problem is that the parser recognises that these are floating point numbers and in R there is no difference between 25.0 and 25. Try this for example:
identical(25.0, 25)25.0 and 25 are just two different representations of the same floating point number. If you want to retain the form in which the data is supplied you will have to read them in as strings (which you can later convert to numeric if you need to perform calculations). You can do this with a handler:
yaml.load("25.0", handlers=list("float#fix"=function(x) as.character(x)))