[R] identical values not so identical? newbie help please!

[Berwin A Turlach]

G'day Maja,

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:44:28 -0800 (PST)
maiya <maja.zaloznik at gmail.com> wrote:

> Aaah, it truly is wonderful, this technology! 
> I guess I'm going to have to override it a bit though..
> Along the lines of
> 
> tae <- ifesle(all.equal(obs, exp) == TRUE, 0, sum(abs(obs - exp)))

Please read the help page on all.equal().  As all.equal() tries to
report the difference between the objects, if one exists, one should
not compare the result from all.equal directly to TRUE.

HTH.

Cheers,

	Berwin

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