Bringing up an old topic on a small technicality.
In the help documentation on seq.
Value:
The result is of 'mode' '"integer"' if 'from' is (numerically
equal to an) integer and 'by' is not specified.
The arguement in seq specifying length also creates "double" which is not
obvious in the wording, as "by" is not specified but
the object is double.
> typeof(seq(from=1, length=1))
[1] "double"
marcus
>>> Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3/08/2004 3:15:45 AM >>>
>>>>> "Georgi" == Georgi Boshnakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Mon, 2 Aug 2004 15:46:37 +0100 writes:
Georgi> Hi, I wonder if the following (apparent)
Georgi> inconsistency is a bug or feature.
a feature "of course".
Georgi> Since scalars are simply vectors of length one I
Georgi> would think that a and a:a produce the same result.
Why would you?
Have you read the documentation for ":" carefully?
{Part this topic, namely that a numeric constant such as "4"
is a "double" in R (but integer in S-plus since S+5.0)
should probably finally end up in the R FAQ ...
}
Regards, Martin Maechler
Georgi> For example,
>> identical(4.01,4.01:4.01)
Georgi> [1] TRUE
Georgi> However,
Georgi> identical(4,4:4)
Georgi> [1] FALSE
Georgi> and
>> identical(4.0,4.0:4.0)
Georgi> [1] FALSE
Georgi> A closer look reveals that the colon operator produces objects of
different class, e.g.
a closer look wouldn't have been necessary had you read and
understood the documentation.
>> class(4)
Georgi> [1] "numeric"
>> class(4.0)
Georgi> [1] "numeric"
Georgi> but
>> class(4:4)
Georgi> [1] "integer"
>> class(4.0:4.0)
Georgi> [1] "integer"
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