cstevenson at edisonresearch.com
2007-Jan-07 03:01 UTC
[Rd] round(4.5) does not work (PR#9439)
Anything that has 4.5 in it will always round to 4. For example 24.5 becomes 24 and 34.5 becomes 34. Or 1234567894.5 will become 1234567894.> round(4.5)[1] 4> round(3.5)[1] 4 Thanks, Clint W. Stevenson Senior Statistician Edison Media Research cstevenson at edisonresearch.com --please do not edit the information below-- Version: platform = i386-pc-mingw32 arch = i386 os = mingw32 system = i386, mingw32 status = major = 2 minor = 4.1 year = 2006 month = 12 day = 18 svn rev = 40228 language = R version.string = R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18) Windows XP Professional (build 2600) Service Pack 2.0 Locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 Search Path: .GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods, Autoloads, package:base
On 1/6/2007 10:01 PM, cstevenson at edisonresearch.com wrote:> Anything that has 4.5 in it will always round to 4. For example 24.5 becomes 24 and 34.5 becomes 34. Or 1234567894.5 will become 1234567894. > >> round(4.5) > [1] 4 >> round(3.5) > [1] 4That's behaving as documented, using "banker's rounding". See the ?round man page. Duncan Murdoch> Thanks, > > Clint W. Stevenson > Senior Statistician > Edison Media Research > cstevenson at edisonresearch.com > > > --please do not edit the information below-- > > Version: > platform = i386-pc-mingw32 > arch = i386 > os = mingw32 > system = i386, mingw32 > status = > major = 2 > minor = 4.1 > year = 2006 > month = 12 > day = 18 > svn rev = 40228 > language = R > version.string = R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18) > > Windows XP Professional (build 2600) Service Pack 2.0 > > Locale: > LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > > Search Path: > .GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods, Autoloads, package:base > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel