[Rd] all.equal buglet(s)

Patrick Burns pburns at pburns.seanet.com
Sat Mar 18 13:54:48 CET 2006


In the details section for 'all.equal' (in the paragraph
on complex values) it says 'all.numeric.numeric'.  I
presume that should be 'all.equal.numeric'.

When two integer vectors differ, it is possible to get
overflow:

 > set.seed(1)
 > r1 <- .Random.seed
 > set.seed(2)
 > r2 <- .Random.seed
 > all.equal(r1, r2)
[1] "Mean relative  difference: NA"
Warning message:
NAs produced by integer overflow in: target - current

A small change to 'all.equal.numeric' would fix that if it
is felt to be worthwhile.

Patrick Burns
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