On 27/04/2014, 10:16 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
Is there a reason it's a factor and not a string? A string would seem to be
more appropriate to me (given that we know it's a number that can't be
represented exactly by R)
The user asked that anything which can't be converted to a number should
b
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 09:23:23PM -0700, Tom Kraljevic wrote:
> This, needless to say, is disruptive for us. (Actually, it was downright
> shocking.)
It WAS somewhat shocking. I trust the R core team to get things
right, and (AFAICT) they nearly always do. This was an exception, and
shocking
Is there a reason it's a factor and not a string? A string would seem to be
more appropriate to me (given that we know it's a number that can't be
represented exactly by R)
Hadley
On Saturday, April 26, 2014, Martin Maechler
wrote:
> > Simon Urbanek >
> > on Sat, 19 Apr 2014 13:06:1
>From the help page ?':' we can read:
"Value ‘to’ will be included if it differs from ‘from’ by an
integer up to a numeric fuzz of about ‘1e-7’."
So it looks like it is the intended behavior.
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Hans W Borchers wrote:
> Is the following really intended behav
Is the following really intended behaviour of the ':' operator,
> s <- pi - 3.0 + 1e-07
> x <- s:pi
> x
[1] 0.1415928 1.1415928 2.1415928 3.1415928
though the last entry in the range vector is greater than pi?
> x[4] > pi; x[4] - pi
[1] TRUE
[1] 1e-07
and the same, o
