Duncan, I think Emil realizes that the floating point format isn't
able to represent certain numbers, that's why he is suggesting this
change rather than complaining about our arithmetic being broken.
However, I agree with you that we should not adopt his proposal. It
would not make things more "u
R 3.5.1 on Windows 7
The documentation for 'var' says: "These functions return 'NA' when there is
only one observation (whereas S-PLUS has been returning 'NaN'), and fail if
'x' has length zero." The function 'sd' (based on 'var') has similar
documentation.
However, I get:
var(numeric(0))
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On 11/09/2018 11:23 AM, Emil Bode wrote:
Hi all,
Could we modify the "%%" (modulo)-operator to include some tolerance for
rounding-errors when supplied with doubles?
It's not much work (patch supplied on the bottom), and I don't think it would
break anything, only if you were really interes
Hi all,
Could we modify the "%%" (modulo)-operator to include some tolerance for
rounding-errors when supplied with doubles?
It's not much work (patch supplied on the bottom), and I don't think it would
break anything, only if you were really interested in analysing rounding
differences.
An
