[Rd] Historical NA question

[Hervé Pagès]

On 05/06/2014 08:54 AM, William Dunlap wrote:
> You can also use is.element(els,set) instead of the equivalent
> els%in%set

No they are not *equivalent*. Equivalent means you could substitute
one by the other in your code without changing its behavior.

H.

> and leave your precedence problems behind.
> Bill Dunlap
> TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
>
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:35 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 06 May 2014, at 01:05 , Hervé Pagès <hpages at fhcrc.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> BTW, that %in% has precedence over arithmetic operations is surprising,
>>> error-prone, and doesn't cover any reasonable use case (who needs to
>>> multiply the logical vector returned by %in% by some value?) but that's
>>> another story:
>>
>> The point here is that the %foo% operators all have the _same_ precedence. In principle, they can be user-coded, and there is no way to express what precedence is desirable. It may turn out slightly weird for %in%, but think of what would happen if %*% had lower precedence than addition.
>>
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