negative numerics in []
Hello, I'm a bit puzzled by what looks (to me) like a discrepancy between documentation and implementation. The documentation for [] says this about the indices: "Numeric values are coerced to integer as by as.integer (and hence truncated towards zero)."
as.integer(-3.1)
[1] -3 Good. But:
x <- c(1,2,3) x[-3.1]
[1] 1 2 3 Given the documentation, I'd have expected a result of "[1] 1 2", because -3.1 should be coerced to -3 (by virtue of as.integer). What bit do I not get? (I'm using R 3.1.1, if that matters.) Best, Michael
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