Dear list,
In a function, I don't care if my input has class 'integer' or
'numeric', so I wanted to use 'inherits()' to control for that.
However, this function tells me that an actual object of class 'integer'
does not inherit from class 'numeric'. The class def of 'integer' does
state 'numeric' as one of the superclasses. Isn't that somewhat
inconsistent?
> getClass("integer")
Class "integer" [package "methods"]
No Slots, prototype of class "integer"
Extends: "numeric", "vector", "data.frameRowLabels"
> a <- 1:3
> class(a)
[1] "integer"
> inherits(a, "numeric")
[1] FALSE
Regards,
Janko
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