
This is a safe way of comparing if two vectors of floating point numbers
are (pairwise) equal. This is safer than using ==
, because it has
a built in tolerance
near(x, y, tol = .Machine$double.eps^0.5)
Numeric vectors to compare
Tolerance of comparison.
# NOT RUN {
sqrt(2) ^ 2 == 2
near(sqrt(2) ^ 2, 2)
# }
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