> On 17 Nov 2015, at 20:37 , Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2 == "2" > [1] TRUE > > ?"==" says: > > "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(99999) > [1] "99999" >> as.character(100000) > [1] "1e+05" >> as.character(100000) == "100000" > [1] FALSE >
Also notice that, for similar reasons > 10 > "2" [1] FALSE (At least in most collations. I recently discovered that OSX Finder sorted 2dnorm.R between 02-Probability.toc and 03-Combinatorics-2x2.pdf.) -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
