Why does “one” < 2 equal FALSE in R?

by

From help("<"):

If the two arguments are atomic vectors of different types, one is
coerced to the type of the other, the (decreasing) order of precedence
being character, complex, numeric, integer, logical and raw.

So in this case, the numeric is of lower precedence than the character. So 2 is coerced to the character "2". Comparison of strings in character vectors is lexicographic which, as I understand it, is alphabetic but locale-dependent.

More Related Contents:

  1. Why TRUE == “TRUE” is TRUE in R?
  2. Numeric comparison difficulty in R
  3. Convert factor to integer [duplicate]
  4. Converting two columns of a data frame to a named vector
  5. What’s the difference between identical(x, y) and isTRUE(all.equal(x, y))?
  6. Dealing with TRUE, FALSE, NA and NaN
  7. What evaluates to True/False in R?
  8. Why does X[Y] join of data.tables not allow a full outer join, or a left join?
  9. Subset data frame based on multiple conditions [duplicate]
  10. UTF-8 file output in R
  11. Using Rcpp within parallel code via snow to make a cluster
  12. Extract every nth element of a vector
  13. Is there a R function that applies a function to each pair of columns?
  14. In R markdown in RStudio, how can I prevent the source code from running off a pdf page?
  15. Create columns from factors and count [duplicate]
  16. Unable to change Python path in reticulate
  17. geom_boxplot with precomputed values
  18. How to add a index by set of data when using rbindlist?
  19. Split one row into multiple rows [duplicate]
  20. knitr: How to prevent text wrapping in output?
  21. Shift values in single column of dataframe up
  22. How to export S3 method so it is available in namespace?
  23. Find K nearest neighbors, starting from a distance matrix
  24. Changing the order of dodged bars in ggplot2 barplot
  25. How to collapse many records into one while removing NA values
  26. What does the R function `poly` really do?
  27. What does the error “arguments imply differing number of rows: x, y” mean?
  28. Removing multiple columns from R data.table with parameter for columns to remove
  29. Create a Vector of All Days Between Two Dates
  30. How to calculate time difference with previous row of a data.frame by group

Leave a Comment