Note that ?all.equal clearly says that it tests for **approximate equality only** with tolerance "close to 1.5 e-8.
So.. > all.equal(z,pH, tol = 1e-15) [1] "Mean relative difference: 6.732527e-11" and > print(pH, digits =15) ## output omitted Shows you what's going on. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Troels Ring <tr...@gvdnet.dk> wrote: > Dear friends - copy paste missed > > SID <- c() before the first loop - sorry > > BW Troels > > > > Den 25-12-2017 kl. 19:12 skrev Troels Ring: > >> >> Dear friends - merry Christmas and thanks a lot for much help during the >> year! >> >> In the example below I fail to understand how the calculated value pH is >> represented in a simple plot - also included. The calculations are useful >> in practice and likely to be right in principle but I cannot see how this >> occurs: why a calculated value of 7.4 known as numeric is not simply >> plotted as such. It happened on Windows both 7 and 10 with R version 3.4.1. >> >> All best wishes >> >> Troels >> >> ff <- function(H,SID,ATOT,ka) H + SID - kw/H - ka*ATOT/(H+ka) >> ka <- 1e-7 >> kw <- 1e-14 >> ATOT <- seq(0,0.3,length=100)*1e-3 >> >> for (i in 1:length(ATOT)) { >> SID[i] <- uniroot(ff,c(-1,1),tol=.Machine$double.eps,maxiter=100000, >> ka=ka, >> ATOT=ATOT[i], H = 10^-7.4)$root} >> ATOT >> >> #confirm pH 0 7.4 >> >> H <- c() >> for (i in 1:length(ATOT)) { >> H[i] <- uniroot(ff,c(1e-19,1),tol=.Machine$double.eps,maxiter=100000 >> ,ka=ka, >> ATOT=ATOT[i], SID = SID[i])$root} >> >> (pH <- -log10(H)) >> plot(pH) >> str(pH) >> # num [1:100] 7.4 7.4 7.4 7.4 7.4 ... >> z <- rep(7.4,length(ATOT)) >> all.equal(z,pH) >> #TRUE >> points(z,col="red") >> >> > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posti > ng-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.