[R] Strange Bug in R

[Berend Hasselman]

> On 6 Oct 2015, at 09:24, Neverstop <neverstop at hotmail.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> I don't understand why R works this way:
>> rm(list=ls())
>> require(foreign)
>> dataset <- read.dta("http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/data/ologit.dta")
>> min(dataset$gpa)
> [1] 1.9
>> min(dataset$gpa)>=1.90
> [1] FALSE
>> min(dataset$gpa)>=1.9
> [1] FALSE
>> min(dataset$gpa)>1.89
> [1] TRUE
> Shouldn't I get 3 TRUEs?
> Am I missing something?
> Thank you.
> 
> 

See R FAQ 7.31  in https://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html
It should provide clarification for your puzzlement.

Berend


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