Sorry about my clumsy fingers! :-(
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Charles C. Berry wrote:
Douglas Bates [after a tortuous discussion of the behavior of
is(7,"integer")]:
As for the question of the bug in "is", ... "it depends what your definition
of `is' is." [Bill Clinton]
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Good one, Douglas!
Chuck
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Douglas Bates wrote:
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Wacek Kusnierczyk
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rolf Turner wrote:
> >
[snip]
As for the question of the bug in "is" - although I hate to sound like
a politician who was given the nickname "Slick Willie" (see Clinton,
William J.), "it depends what your definition of `is' is." The
definition in R is a function that examines the class of an object and
reports on whether the object has the given class or is of a class
that inherits from the given class. In this case it will give an
answer based on the class of the computer representation of the
number, not the mathematical concept of the number.
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