Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970623094548.1180A-100000@zen>
Date: 1997-06-23T16:46:57Z
From: Thomas Lumley
Subject: R-alpha: comparing alpha and numeric
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970623123919.6004A-100000@paca>
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Ben Bolker wrote:
>
> Is this behavior correct? (R 0.49 on SunOS 4.1.4)
>
> > "a">1
> TRUE
> > "a"<1
<etc>
It gets worse
> "3">4
[1] FALSE
> "3"<4
[1] TRUE
> "3"==4
[1] FALSE
> "3"==3
[1] TRUE
all well and good, and perhaps even useful, but
> "23"<3
[1] TRUE
Ouch.
Thomas Lumley
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