[R] problem with "which"

[Berwin A Turlach]

G'day Melanie,

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:46:56 -1000
Melanie Abecassis <Melanie.Abecassis at noaa.gov> wrote:

> This doesn't seem to happen with integers.
> Am I missing something ?? 

Yes, FAQ 7.31:

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-doesn_0027t-R-think-these-numbers-are-equal_003f

> Is there a better function for non-integers ?

> which(sapply(tt, function(x) isTRUE(all.equal(x,1.7))))
[1] 8

seems to work.

HTH.

Cheers,

	Berwin

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