[R] bizarre seq() behavior?

[Rainer Schuermann]

You have a dot (not a comma) after 8:
> seq(2,8.1,length.out=3)
         ^

Rgds,
Rainer


On Wednesday 23 November 2011 06:59:12 Czerminski, Ryszard wrote:
> Is there any rational explanation for the bizarre seq() behavior below?
> 
> > seq(2,8.1, lenght.out=3)
> 
> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
> 
> > help(seq)
> > seq(2,8,length.out=3)
> 
> [1] 2 5 8
> 
> > seq(2,8.1,length.out=3)
> 
> [1] 2.00 5.05 8.10
> 
> Except maybe that it is early in the morning :)
> 
> Best regards,
> Ryszard
> 
> Ryszard Czerminski
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