Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970623123919.6004A-100000@paca>
Date: 1997-06-23T16:40:55Z
From: Ben Bolker
Subject: R-alpha: comparing alpha and numeric
Is this behavior correct? (R 0.49 on SunOS 4.1.4)
> "a">1
TRUE
> "a"<1
FALSE
> "a"==1
FALSE
> "a">2
TRUE
> "a"<2
FALSE
(I know, this is like the old joke: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this."
"Well, don't do that!" But it might be useful to have this caught by an
error or warning message ...)
Benjamin Bolker Dep't of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
ben@eno.princeton.edu Princeton University
tel: (609) 258-6886, fax: (609) 258-1334
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