No, this is rather the nature of floating point calculations. You may perhaps be looking for ?all.equal or R FAQ 7.31 (I think that's the one) which is google-able. It's a complicated subject, but those should get you started.
Best, Michael On Jun 18, 2012, at 2:58 PM, hamoreno <hamor...@asu.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there any problem of precision when using seq?. For example: > > x<- seq(0,4,0.1) > x[4]=0.3 > > BUT: > > x[4]-0.3=5.551115e-17 > > It means when I use this condition within an if clause, it does not find > values with 0.3 for x[4] as it is not precisely 0.3. > Is there any bug in seq() ? > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Inconsistency-using-seq-tp4633739.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
