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...ime trouble shooting a function that I had written only to discover that the problem I was having was with the comparison operator. I assumed that the following would return TRUE: > testMean <- 82.8 + 0.1 > testMean [1] 82.9 > testMean == 82.9 [1] FALSE Apparently this has to do with deciml places. Look: > newTest <- 82.0 > newTest [1] 82 > newTest == 82 [1] TRUE > newTest == 82.0 [1] TRUE > What does signif() do to my object called "testMean" so that the comparison now evaluates to TRUE? > signif(testMean, 3) == 82.9 [1] TRUE Version info: > R...