[R-SIG-Finance] Question regarding floor and round

[Martin Becker]

  AFAIR, Excel does not comply with IEEE rounding (but R does), which 
may lead to undesirable results if Base is not exactly representable; at 
least on my system I get

 > my.floor(2.8,0.2)
[1] 2.6

for example.
So (if my memory about Excel's behaviour is correct) one has to modify 
the functions my.floor and my.ceiling slightly to mimic Excel's 
behaviour more precisely. Something like

Floor <- function(x,Base) {
   Base*floor(x*(1+.Machine$double.eps)/Base)
}

Ceiling <- function(x,Base) {
   Base*ceiling(x*(1-.Machine$double.eps)/Base)
}

may be closer to Excel. At least, in the previous example I get

 > Floor(2.8,0.2)
[1] 2.8

on my system.

HTH

   Martin




On 26.08.2010 00:00, Pierre Lapointe wrote:
> Here are modified floor and ceiling functions that solve your problem:
>
> my.floor<-function(x,my.base){
> floor(x/my.base)*my.base
> }
>
> my.ceiling<-function(x,my.base){
> ceiling(x/my.base)*my.base
> }
>
> Base = 0.5
> my.floor(126.6,Base)   #[1] 126.5
> my.ceiling(126.6,Base) #[1] 127
>
> Base = 1
> my.floor(126.6,Base) #[1] 126
> my.ceiling(126.6,Base) #[1] 127
>
> HTH
>
> Pierre
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Gandhi, Puneet - RSCH AMRS<
> p.gandhi at baml.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Is there any function in R which does what Floor or Ceiling in Excel.
>>
>> Excel can take 2 arguments to FLOOR function while R doesn't.
>>
>> I need the following which is done in excel
>>
>> Base = 0.5
>> Floor(126.6,Base) = 126.5
>> Ceiling(126.6, Base) = 127
>>
>>
>> Base = 1
>> Floor(126.6, Base) = 126
>> Ceiling(126.6, Base) = 127
>>
>> I tried round, floor, ceiling, trunc in R but none does this job.
>>
>> Pls Help/Thanks
>> Puneet
>>
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