L.S. Is the following expected and/or documented? > 1e-2 < "0.05" [1] TRUE > 1e-4 < "0.05" [1] FALSE Many thanks in advance for any pointer. Best, Tobias > sessionInfo() R Under development (unstable) (2013-01-01 r61512) Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
scientific notation and comparison with character variable
3 messages · Joshua Ulrich, Tobias Verbeke
It's expected. From ?"<":
If the two arguments are atomic vectors of different types, one is
coerced to the type of the other, the (decreasing) order of
precedence being character, complex, numeric, integer, logical and
raw.
as.character(1e-2) < 0.05
[1] TRUE
as.character(1e-4) < 0.05
[1] FALSE Best, -- Joshua Ulrich | about.me/joshuaulrich FOSS Trading | www.fosstrading.com On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Tobias Verbeke
<tobias.verbeke at openanalytics.eu> wrote:
L.S. Is the following expected and/or documented?
1e-2 < "0.05"
[1] TRUE
1e-4 < "0.05"
[1] FALSE Many thanks in advance for any pointer. Best, Tobias
sessionInfo()
R Under development (unstable) (2013-01-01 r61512) Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
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Thanks and apologies for the noise. Best wishes, Tobias
On 01/02/2013 07:43 PM, Joshua Ulrich wrote:
It's expected. From ?"<":
If the two arguments are atomic vectors of different types, one is
coerced to the type of the other, the (decreasing) order of
precedence being character, complex, numeric, integer, logical and
raw.
as.character(1e-2) < 0.05
[1] TRUE
as.character(1e-4) < 0.05
[1] FALSE Best, -- Joshua Ulrich | about.me/joshuaulrich FOSS Trading | www.fosstrading.com On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Tobias Verbeke <tobias.verbeke at openanalytics.eu> wrote:
L.S. Is the following expected and/or documented?
1e-2 < "0.05"
[1] TRUE
1e-4 < "0.05"
[1] FALSE Many thanks in advance for any pointer. Best, Tobias
sessionInfo()
R Under development (unstable) (2013-01-01 r61512) Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
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