[R] surprising difference in log()
Duncan Murdoch
murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Tue Jun 26 16:31:44 CEST 2007
On 6/26/2007 10:20 AM, Mike Lawrence wrote:
> According to the description of floor(), the latter result is the
> correct one:
>
> 'floor takes a single numeric argument x and returns a numeric vector
> containing the largest integers *not greater than* the corresponding
> elements of x.' (emphasis added)
>
> floor(3) == 2
> >True
3 is not greater than 3, but it is greater than 2, so the result you
quote above is wrong. You should see
> floor(3)
[1] 3
> floor(3) == 2
[1] FALSE
Do you really see the result you posted?
Duncan Murdoch
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