On 29/10/2021 4:34 a.m., PIKAL Petr wrote:
Hi
One has to be careful when using fractions in seq step.
Although it works for 0.5
(seq(0,10, .5) - round(seq(0,10,.5),2))==0
[1] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
TRUE
[16] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
in case of 0.3 (or others) it does not always result in expected values (see
FAQ 7.31 for explanation)
(seq(0,10, .3) - round(seq(0,10,.3),2))==0
[1] TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE
[13] FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE
[25] FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE
Petr is right, it's unsafe to use fractional values for the step. 0.5
works because it has a power of 2 in the denominator and so does the
start value, but it's easy to make mistakes when you rely on that (e.g.
changing the step size from 0.5 to 0.3 would break things).
A better idea is to modify a sequence of integers. For example, to get
1.5 to 3.5 by 0.5, you can do (3:7)*0.5, and for 0 to 3 by 0.3, use
(0:10)*0.3.
Duncan Murdoch
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