On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Spencer Graves wrote: > I found an answer in "?unclass" and a minor difference between R 1.7.1 > and S-Plus 6.1.2:
> Now, a trivial comparison between R 1.7.1 and S-Plus 6.1.2: > > ##R 1.7.1 > > tst <- 2 > > class(tst) > [1] "numeric" > > Tst <- unclass(tst) > > class(Tst) > [1] "numeric" > > mode(Tst) > [1] "numeric" > > ## Same thing in S-Plus 6.1.2: > > tst <- 2 > > class(tst) > [1] "integer" > > Tst <- unclass(tst) > > class(Tst) > [1] "integer" > > mode(Tst) > [1] "numeric" > > Note that "tst" and "Tst" have class and mode "numeric" in R 1.7.1 but > class "integer" and mode "numeric" in S-Plus 6.1.2. That's because `2' is integer in S-PLUS >=5 and double in R and S-PLUS < 5. Since you appear not to know that, try it with 2 and 2.0. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
