On 10/12/2019 3:53 a.m., Alain Guillet wrote:
Hi,
I have a vector (see below the dput) and I use unique on it to get unique values. If I
then sort the result of the vector obtained by unique, I see some elements that look like
identical. I suspect it could be a matter of rounded values but table gives a different
result: unlike unique output which contains "3.4 3.4", table has only one cell
for 3.4.
Can anybody know why I get results that look like incoherent between the two
functions?
dput() does some rounding, so it doesn't necessarily reproduce values
exactly. For example,
x <- c(3.4, 3.4 + 1e-15)
unique(x)
#> [1] 3.4 3.4
dput(x)
#> c(3.4, 3.4)
identical(x, c(3.4, 3.4))
#> [1] FALSE
If you really want to see exact values, you can use the "hexNumeric"
option to dput():
dput(x, control = "hexNumeric")
#> c(0x1.b333333333333p+1, 0x1.b333333333335p+1)
identical(x, c(0x1.b333333333333p+1, 0x1.b333333333335p+1))
#> [1] TRUE
Duncan Murdoch
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