[R] %in% not working

[Neil Klepeis]

Thanks to Thomas and everyone on my floating point confusion,

Is there any reason why conversion to 'character' wouldn't be the safest 
way to compare decimal numbers:

 > 1.253 %in% seq(1.1,1.3,by=0.001)
[1] FALSE
 > 1.253 %in% as.character(seq(1.1,1.3,by=0.001))
[1] TRUE
 > 0.001 %in% 1E-3
[1] TRUE
 > "0.001" %in% "1E-3"
[1] FALSE
 > as.character(0.001) %in% as.character(1E-3)
[1] TRUE


If so, could R do something like this automatically?



Thomas Lumley wrote:
> The optimistic version of Peter's general principle is that two real
> numbers will compare equal only if they were obtained by the same
> computation.



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