[R] Method dispatch sometimes failsfor lavaan objects

Hello, in some R sessions, method dispatch for objects of the (S4) class “lavaan" fail. An example from such a “bad” session: > library(lavaan) > HS.model <- ' visual =~ x1 + x2 + x3 + textual =~ x4 + x5 + x6 + speed =~ x7 + x8 + x9 ' > fit <- cfa(HS.model, data =

Re: [R] Strange behaviour of as.integer()

I would like to thank all those who wrote helpful and interesting replies to my question. I could have saved myself the time for writing it up had I simply read ?as.integer. However, under the circumstances in which I first encountered as.integer's truncating behaviour this was not so obvious becau

[R] Strange behaviour of as.integer()

I have encountered a strange behaviour of as.integer() which does not seem correct to me. Sorry if this is just an indication of me not understanding floating point arithmetic. > .57 * 100 [1] 57 > .29 * 100 [1] 29 So far, so good. But: > as.integer(.57 * 100) [1] 56 > as.integer(.29 * 100) [1]