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...l file activity ( on the server or client ) was more than adequate I was non plussed, until I reasoned that the only other device between Client and Server was the Network Switch. A Quick power cycle of the Netgear switch later , and the performance was back where it should have been ! Just a salutory tail to tell really since the problem was neither Server or Client based, but the architecture was clearly malfunctioning. Does anyone know of a test I could have carried out in order to trouble shoot that particular issue ?

Given that we occasionally run into problems with comparing Excel results to R results, and other spreadsheet-induced errors, I thought this might be of interest. http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/researchers-finally-replicated-reinhart-rogoff-and-there-are-serious-problems The punchline: "If this error turns out to be an actual mistake Reinhart-Rogoff made, well, all I can hope is that

I have encountered a strange behaviour of as.integer() which does not seem correct to me. Sorry if this is just an indication of me not understanding floating point arithmetic. > .57 * 100 [1] 57 > .29 * 100 [1] 29 So far, so good. But: > as.integer(.57 * 100) [1] 56 > as.integer(.29 * 100) [1] 28 Then again: > all.equal(.57 * 100, as.integer(57)) [1] TRUE > all.equal(.29 *