[R] Bug in "is" ?

[Peter Dalgaard]

Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 25/09/2008 4:43 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
> [ lots of deletions ]
>
>> I do think, however, that there ought to a WARNING section in the  
>> help on
>> is.integer() saying something like:
>>
>>     NOTE: is.integer() DOES NOT DO what you expect it to do.
>>
>> In large friendly letters.
>
> But only the first few times that you read it?
>
And only for readers not having grown up on strongly typed computer 
languages? (Because to them the notion of an object having different 
type depending on its value is quite alien to begin with.)

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