Is this behavior correct? (R 0.49 on SunOS 4.1.4)> "a">1TRUE> "a"<1FALSE> "a"==1FALSE> "a">2TRUE> "a"<2FALSE (I know, this is like the old joke: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." "Well, don't do that!" But it might be useful to have this caught by an error or warning message ...) Benjamin Bolker Dep't of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, ben@eno.princeton.edu Princeton University tel: (609) 258-6886, fax: (609) 258-1334 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Ben Bolker wrote:> > Is this behavior correct? (R 0.49 on SunOS 4.1.4) > > > "a">1 > TRUE > > "a"<1<etc> It gets worse> "3">4[1] FALSE> "3"<4[1] TRUE> "3"==4[1] FALSE> "3"==3[1] TRUE all well and good, and perhaps even useful, but> "23"<3[1] TRUE Ouch. Thomas Lumley ------------------------------------------------------+------ Biostatistics : "Never attribute to malice what : Uni of Washington : can be adequately explained by : Box 357232 : incompetence" - Hanlon's Razor : Seattle WA 98195-7232 : : ------------------------------------------------------------ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-