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2012 Jan 03
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Comparison of numeric and character vectors
Hi all,
I just discovered that R considers characters to be really big:
> "a" > 999
[1] TRUE
> "a" > 9e307
[1] TRUE
> "a" > 9e308
[1] FALSE
and that some characters are literally infinitely big:
> "Z" >= Inf
[1] TRUE
although not all:
> "a" > Inf
[1] FALSE
This came as a surprise to me (although it is quite possibly a trivial
issue), and I'd appreciate any information about why R cons...