[R] how to judge a virable is a integer?

[Sergio Fonda]

Further and last trial:

> a=5.102> a-floor(a)==0[1] FALSE> a=5.9> a-floor(a)==0[1] FALSE> a=19> a-floor(a)==0[1] TRUE

All the best,

Sergio



2014-10-18 16:25 GMT+02:00 PO SU <rhelpmaillist at 163.com>:

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> It's due to that, 1 is a numeric, 1.2 is a numeric, though it's true. but
> deeply, when i want to know 1 is an integer,  there seems no easy way to
> get the answer.
> So, is there anyone happen to know it?
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> PO SU
> mail: desolator88 at 163.com
> Majored in Statistics from SJTU
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> At 2014-10-18 20:10:09, "S Ellison" <S.Ellison at LGCGroup.com> wrote:
> >> But i use a<-10/b ,  b is some value ,may be  5, maybe 5.5
> >If you do floating point arithmetic on integers you'll usually get
> floating point answers, including the 5.0.
> >
> >See FAQ 7.31 for the usual floating point problem, and ?all.equal for the
> usual answer to it. You could see if a result is close to an integer by,for
> example, using all.equal to compare it to itself after rounding.
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