From csardi at rmki.kfki.hu  Tue Feb 12 16:19:58 2008
From: csardi at rmki.kfki.hu (Gabor Csardi)
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:19:58 +0100
Subject: [Rd] 0.45<0.45 = TRUE (PR#10744)
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:) It is a good idea, but i don't it would work. We'd have hundreds of 
emails on R-help and R-devel complaining about mysterious warning
messages for code that had been working just fine for two years....

Gabor

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:13:36PM +0800, Berwin A Turlach wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:47:56 +0100
> Gabor Csardi <csardi at rmki.kfki.hu> wrote:
> 
> > OMG, not again please!
> > 
> > FAQ 7.31.
> 
> Yeah, there seems to be a cluster of that type of questions at the
> moment.
> 
> Perhaps it is time to introduce a global option "HaveReadFAQ7.31" whose
> default is "FALSE" but can be changed via the normal mechanism to
> "TRUE".
> 
> Any comparison of numeric values/vectors should print a warning message
> "You are comparing numbers calculated using finite precision
> arithmetic, have you read FAQ 7.31."  while the value of this option is
> FALSE.  
> 
> Perhaps that will help. :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	Berwin
> 
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[Rd] 0.45<0.45 = TRUE (PR#10744)
Gabor Csardi