Hi, all, I swear, bug.report() ate my message! Apologies to all, esp. Peter who will once again have to clean up after my mess... The bug report was supposed to say: R> round(100000/3, -2) - 33300 [1] -7.275958e-12 I would have hoped for 0. The problem seems to be specifically for negative "digits". -- David Brahm (brahm@alum.mit.edu) Version: platform = sparc-sun-solaris2.6 arch = sparc os = solaris2.6 system = sparc, solaris2.6 status = major = 1 minor = 3.0 year = 2001 month = 06 day = 22 language = R Search Path: .GlobalEnv, package:misc, package:io, package:arrays, package:ls1, package:db, package:ts, package:ctest, Autoloads, package:base -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
round() doesnt (PR#1138)
2 messages · David Brahm, Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, David Brahm wrote:
Hi, all, I swear, bug.report() ate my message! Apologies to all, esp. Peter who will once again have to clean up after my mess... The bug report was supposed to say: R> round(100000/3, -2) - 33300 [1] -7.275958e-12 I would have hoped for 0. The problem seems to be specifically for negative "digits". -- David Brahm (brahm@alum.mit.edu) Version: platform = sparc-sun-solaris2.6 arch = sparc os = solaris2.6 system = sparc, solaris2.6 status = major = 1 minor = 3.0
^^^^^^^^ I can duplicate this under Windows R1.3.0 but not Debian R1.3.1, so it may have been fixed. Looking at the changes to arithmetic.c I don't see why, though. -thomas -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._