DougB == Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on Fri, 19 Nov 2004 06:59:49 -0600 writes:
DougB Nathan Leon Pace, MD, MStat wrote:
Hi,
Using R 2.0.1 on Mac g5 running Mac OS X 10.3.6.
I would expect that
abs(.7 - .5) = abs(.3 - .5) should be returned
Nathan Leon Pace, MD, MStat wrote:
Hi,
Using R 2.0.1 on Mac g5 running Mac OS X 10.3.6.
I would expect that
abs(.7 - .5) = abs(.3 - .5) should be returned TRUE.
Instead
www - abs(.7 - .5) = abs(.3 - .5)
www
[1] FALSE
Is this a result of floating point or the implementation of abs or
something
Hi,
Using R 2.0.1 on Mac g5 running Mac OS X 10.3.6.
I would expect that
abs(.7 - .5) = abs(.3 - .5) should be returned TRUE.
Instead
www - abs(.7 - .5) = abs(.3 - .5)
www
[1] FALSE
Is this a result of floating point or the implementation of abs or
something else?
In a function I need to