[R] ifelse behavior[solved]

Stephan Holl sholl at gmx.net
Mon Sep 2 17:07:37 CEST 2002


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At 02 Sep 2002 17:00:02 +0200 Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

Hello Peter

> >  blah$index.s -100
> > [1] -1.421085e-14
> 
> I.e.: Never trust exact equality with floatingpoint numbers!

I could solve the problem when I used the round() function. Then the
wanted result came out.

anyway,
thanks for your help

cheers
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