> Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 12:22:12 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch
>
> >>>>> "BDR" == Prof Brian D Ripley
<ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
[...]
> BDR> Currently the only time in R you are likely to get an integer
> BDR> result is a : or seq expression, but you are not supposed to
rely
> BDR> on this.
>
> Well, "Values:" in ?seq says
>
> >> Value:
> >> The result is of `mode' `"integer"' if
`from' is (numerically
> >> equal to an) integer.
>
> on which I do rely..
My point was the reverse, though. You are not supposed to rely on
everything else giving double. That's what the wam example in S3 did.
[...]
--
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