[R] strange behaviour when subsetting a data.frame

[Doran, Harold]

Yes, but notice that

man2[3,] == .3
[1] FALSE

This is because of issues of machine precision when dealing with floating points, not a problem in R.  Comparisons for nearly equivalent numbers are done using all.equal() as shown below.

> all.equal(man2[3,], .3)
[1] TRUE




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From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Eckstädt, Elisabeth
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 8:37 AM
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Subject: [R] strange behaviour when subsetting a data.frame

Hello everyone,
I am experiencing a unfathomable benaviour of "subset" on a data.frame. This is a minimal reproducable example. The data.frame cosists only of one column, which contains 10 ascending values (from 0.1 to 1). Subsetting for 0.1 is working (gives me one row), subsetting for 0.3 gives me zero rows? Doing the same with values from 1 to 10 is working out well (as expected). 

Beimischung=seq(0.1,1,0.1)
man2=data.frame(Beimischung)
subset(man2, Beimischung==0.3)
#---> gives 0 rows
subset(man2, Beimischung==0.1)
---> gives one row (as expected)#

#also not working:

man2$Beimischung3=man2$Beimischung*10
subset(man2, Beimischung3==3)
--> gives 0 rows

Does anybody have a clue for me?
Thanks in advance
Regards
Elisabeth
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