Dear DevelopeRs,
I am surprised about the outcome of the second command:
str(as.character(as.numeric(ee)))
str(as.character(log(-1)))
I would have expected a character NA. Is there an intention behind this
behavior?
Best, Ulrike
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It seems to me that preserving information about the kind of number
(or not) present would be useful. I rather like the fact that
as.numeric(as.character(NaN))
and
as.numeric(as.character(Inf))
both work as the identity operator on numeric-like objects. (In this
context, note that both
Kevin,
I wouldn't mind NaN (although it seems a bit strange, because you
wouldn't expect a character to be a number), but I find it strange to
get the character string NaN. is.na(as.character(NaN)) returns FALSE,
which is what I dislike.
Best, Ulrike
Kevin R. Coombes schrieb:
It seems to
Hi Ulrike
any set of three people will probably have five different opinions on
this, but I can see that this makes sense:
NA - not available, not measured, not recorded
NaN - result of an arithmetic computation that lies outside of the real
numbers; in that sense, available.
However,
