From JRosten at lehman.com  Tue Sep  7 11:24:46 2004
From: JRosten at lehman.com (JRosten@lehman.com)
Date: Tue Sep  7 11:24:48 2004
Subject: [Rd] FW: Problems with floor, round functions (PR#7215)
Message-ID: <20040907092446.226AF10EC1@slim.kubism.ku.dk>


Please disregard the previous bug report. It appears that the session I was
running had become corrupted and a new one is not reproducing the errors
described.

thanks
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Rosten, Jeremy  
> Sent:	Tuesday, September 07, 2004 9:44 AM
> To:	'R-bugs@R-project.org'
> Subject:	Problems with floor, round functions
> 
> Hi
> 
> I am currently using version 1.6.2 ( I am in the process of getting 1.9.1
> installed) and perhaps this is an old problem that has been resolved.
> 
> Anyway hat I am seeing is the following:
> 
> > floor(4.99)
> [1] 4
> > 0.01*floor(4.99)
> [1] 0.03
> 
> And :
>  0.01*(floor(4.99)+0.00000000001)
> [1] 0.04
> 
> Even when I do:
> 
> as.numeric(as.character(floor(4.99)))+0.1
> 
> I get:
> 
> [1] 4.0
> 
> This happens with round and ceiling as well .
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jeremy Rosten
> 
> 

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[Rd] FW: Problems with floor, round functions (PR#7215)
JRosten@lehman.com