Message-ID: <199706231705.TAA04361@sophie.ethz.ch>
Date: 1997-06-23T17:05:04Z
From: Martin Maechler
Subject: R-alpha: comparing alpha and numeric
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970623094548.1180A-100000@zen> (message from Thomas Lumley on Mon, 23 Jun 1997 09:46:57 -0700 (PDT))
The solution is :
If one of them is character(), both are coerced to and then compared..
which 'naturally' gives
> "23"<3 <--> "23" < "3" <--> "AB" < "B"
[1] TRUE
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