From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Mon Nov  5 08:47:59 2001
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 08:47:59 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] round() doesnt (PR#1138)
In-Reply-To: <200110222231.f9MMViH22985@arbres1a.FMR.Com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0111050847180.7837-100000@gannet.stats>

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, David Brahm wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
>    I swear, bug.report() ate my message!  Apologies to all, esp. Peter who
> will once again have to clean up after my mess...
>
>    The bug report was supposed to say:
>
> R> round(100000/3, -2) - 33300
>    [1] -7.275958e-12
>
> I would have hoped for 0.  The problem seems to be specifically for negative
> "digits".
> 			-- David Brahm (brahm@alum.mit.edu)

Fixed for R-devel.  Now for digits <=0 a final rounding to integer is done
in fround.

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[Rd] round() doesnt (PR#1138)
Prof Brian Ripley