From maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch  Tue Apr 19 10:07:37 2011
From: maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch (Martin Maechler)
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:07:37 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Dangerous Bug with IF function of R
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>>>>> salmajj  <salmajj at softhome.net>
>>>>>     on Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:11:28 -0700 (PDT) writes:

    > Thanks a lot Petr it works!!!  
of course ..

    > You know for someone who is used to work with matlab it is not so obvious:)

well, what do you mean with that?

I'm intrigued. After such a blatantly wrong claim about a bug in
R...  what exactly are you claiming about Matlab here?
That it implements (software) decimal arithmetic on top of the
cpu-internal binary arithmetic ?   probably rather not ...

So?



[Rd] Dangerous Bug with IF function of R
Martin Maechler