[Rd] dput()

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

FAQ 7.31

See also this StackOverflow post:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9508518/why-are-these-numbers-not-equal

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Às 00:08 de 29/02/20, robin hankin escreveu:
> My interpretation of dput.Rd is that dput() gives an exact ASCII form
> of the internal representation of an R object.  But:
> 
>   rhankin using cuttlefish:~ $ R --version
> R version 3.6.2 (2019-12-12) -- "Dark and Stormy Night"
> Copyright (C) 2019 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> 
> [snip]
> 
> rhankin using cuttlefish:~ $ R --vanilla --quiet
>> x <- sum(dbinom(0:20,20,0.35))
>> dput(x)
> 1
>> x-1
> [1] -4.440892e-16
>>
>> x==1
> [1] FALSE
>>
> 
> So, dput(x) gives 1, but x is not equal to 1.  Can anyone advise?
> 
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