unusual result with "any"

Erin Hodgess schrieb:

xy
    

[1] 0.7305081 2.4224211
  

str(xy)
    

 num [1:2] 0.73 2.42
  

any(xy) > 1
    

[1] FALSE
Warning message:
In any(xy) : coercing argument of type 'double' to logical
  

What am I doing wrong please?

  

xy > 1 should return TRUE FALSE, and you want to apply any() to that. 
Thus: any(xy > 1)
any(xy) returns TRUE, as the nonzero numbers are coerced to TRUE
When TRUE is compared with 1, it is coerced to a number (no warning is 
issued here), namely 1.
1 > 1 returns FALSE.