a strange logical bug (PR#162)

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Ross Ihaka <ihaka@stat.auckland.ac.nz> writes:

> On Fri, 9 Apr 1999 jlindsey@alpha.luc.ac.be wrote:
> 
> > In R0.64.0, try
> > as.numeric(is.na(c(NA,NA,1)))
> > as.numeric(c(T,T,F))
> 
> My version says
> 
> 	> as.numeric(is.na(c(NA,NA,1)))
> 	[1] 1 1 0
> 	> as.numeric(c(T,T,F))
> 	[1] 1 1 0
> 
> which I think is ok?

Mine has 

> as.numeric(is.na(c(NA,NA,1)))
[1] -1 -1  0

Which is obviously not OK...

Seems to affect all numeric NA's:

> as.numeric(is.na(as.numeric(NA)))
[1] -1

This is on RedHat 5.2 (As Jim, I suspect)

Ick!

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