Re: [Rd] all.equal: possible mismatch between behaviour and documentation

2015-07-30 Thread Jon Clayden
Dear Martin, Thank you for following up. I appreciate that this is entrenched behaviour and that changing the documentation may be preferable to changing the code in practice, and accordingly I filed this as a documentation bug earlier today (#16493). But I don't agree that the current behaviour

Re: [Rd] all.equal: possible mismatch between behaviour and documentation

2015-07-30 Thread Martin Maechler
Dear Jon, thank you for raising the issue, > Jon Clayden > on Tue, 28 Jul 2015 12:14:48 +0100 writes: > Sorry; minor clarification. The actual test criterion in the example I > gave is of course abs((0.1-0.102)/0.1) < 0.01, not abs(0.1) < 0.01. In > any case, this does not match (my