Do read the help page:
Ties are broken at random. The determination of ``tie'' assumes
that the entries are probabilities.
and then don't blame your tools when you misuse them ....
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Philippe Grosjean wrote:
> I suppose this is a general behavior with external function calls, so I do
> not post (yet) a specific bug report. Could someone explain this?
>
> a <- rep(1, 20) + rnorm(20, mean=0.00001, sd=0.0001)
> b <- embed(a, 3)
> # I want to know where the item in column 2 is greated than both col 1 and 3
> (peak)
> test1 <- max.col(b) == 2
> # ... or I could use a less optimal code
> test2 <- apply(b, 1, max) == b[, 2]
> any(test1 != test2) # both are equivalent
>
> # but when numbers are very close
> a <- rep(1, 20) + rnorm(20, mean=0.0000001, sd=0.0000001)
> b <- embed(a, 3)
> test1 <- max.col(b) == 2
> test2 <- apply(b, 1, max) == b[, 2]
> any(test1 != test2) # tests are now DIFFERENT!
> # Indeed, test2 is correct, and test1 suffers from wrong calculations due
> probably to rounding errors in max.col()
No, to max.col working as documented.
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