NA and NaN in function identical

The help page for function identical says:
    'identical' sees 'NaN' as different from 'as.double(NA)', but all
    'NaN's are equal (and all 'NA' of the same type are equal).
However, we have
 x <- NaN
 y <- as.double(NA)
 x # [1] NaN
 y # [1] NA
 identical(x,y) # [1] TRUE

In my opinion, NaN and as.double(NA) should be distinguished as the
help page suggests.
And sometimes they are:
identical(y,x)
[1] FALSE

so it is a bug.  A quicker version:

identical(NaN, NA_real_) == identical(NA_real_, NaN)

was false, fixed now, thanks for spotting it.
Tested under R version 2.5.1 Patched (2007-08-19 r42638) on Linux (CPU Xeon).

Petr Savicky.

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NA and NaN in function identical

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