See FAQ 7.31.

Duncan Murdoch

On 06/10/2010 12:02 PM, D. Alain wrote:
Hi experts,

I have encountered a strange phenomenon after loading spreadsheet data via

>example<-read.csv("M:\\...\\mydata.csv",header=T)

My data consist of two variables x and y which I have combined to a single 
vector using

>z<-rowSums(cbind(example$x,example$y))
>z
[1]  9.79  9.79 17.54 12.59  2.18  9.79         #vector z with 6 elements

Now I want to identify all elements equal to 9.79, so I enter

>which(z==9.79)

And I get the result

[1] 2 6                                                                 #R 
failes to identify the fist element!

Taking a futher look at the elements I get the following:

>  mode(z)
[1] "numeric"
>  mode(z[1])
[1] "numeric"
>  z[1]+z[2]                                                         #I can add 
first and second element
[1] 19.58

But if I try to apply logical operators I get:

>  z[1]==9.79
[1] FALSE
>  z[2]==9.79
[1] TRUE
>  z[1]==z[2]
[1] FALSE

When I reenter the first element via
>  z[1]<-9.79
>  z[1]==9.79
[1] TRUE

What is wrong with my data? Can anyone help?

>  version
                _
platform         i386-pc-mingw32
arch              i386
os                 mingw32
system          i386, mingw32
status
major             2
minor            11.1
year              2010
month           05
day               31
svn rev           52157
language        R
version.string  R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)

Thanks
D. Alain



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