Hi all, I just discovered that R considers characters to be really big:
> "a" > 999 [1] TRUE > "a" > 9e307 [1] TRUE > "a" > 9e308 [1] FALSE and that some characters are literally infinitely big: > "Z" >= Inf [1] TRUE although not all: > "a" > Inf [1] FALSE This came as a surprise to me (although it is quite possibly a trivial issue), and I'd appreciate any information about why R considers character vectors to even be comparable to numeric vectors, and why it considers characters to have very large values. Thanks! Ista ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
