[R] unary "-" on logicals

[HEUMANN,JOHN (A-Loveland,ex1)]

"An Introduction to R" says that arithmetic operators
coerce logical vectors to numeric vectors. This doesn't
seem to be true for unary "-" however: 

> x <- 1:10
> p1 <- (x > 5)
> p2 <- (-p1)
> is.logical(p2)
[1] TRUE
> is.numeric(p2)
[1] FALSE

Since "==" always does binary comparison, this can lead to
some bizarre behavior:

> p1
 [1] FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE
> p2
 [1] FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE
> (p1 == p2)
 [1]  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE
> ((!p1) == (!p2))
 [1] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE

Considering that p1 and p2 are both logicals, the last two
results seem to defy Boolean logic.

Is the fact that -p1 remains a logical instead of a numeric
intentional or a bug? 

Regards,
-jh-

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John M. Heumann, Agilent Technologies
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