[R] bug?

[(Ted Harding)]

> At 7/14/2003 at 03:29 AM, Marc Vandemeulebroecke wrote:
>Dear R programmers,
>
>is there a sensible explanation for the following behaviour?
>
> > seq(0.7, 0.9, by=0.1) == 0.8
>[1] FALSE FALSE FALSE

Yet another %**% function ...

> "%~=%"<-function(x,y){abs(x-y)<1e-15}
> seq(0.7, 0.9, by=0.1) %~=% 0.8
[1] FALSE  TRUE FALSE

Ted.


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