fpCompare

Comparisons of floating point numbers are problematic due to errors associated with the binary representation of decimal numbers. Despite being aware of these problems, people still use numerical methods that fail to account for these and other rounding errors (this pitfall is the first to be highlighted in Circle 1 of Burns (2012) 'The R Inferno' https://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf). This package provides new relational operators useful for performing floating point number comparisons with a set tolerance.

Last 30 days

This package has been downloaded 3,359 times in the last 30 days. Now we’re talking! This work is officially 'heard of in academic circles', just like those wild research papers on synthetic bananas. The following heatmap shows the distribution of downloads per day. Yesterday, it was downloaded 176 times.

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Last 365 days

This package has been downloaded 35,963 times in the last 365 days. That's enough downloads to make it mildly famous in niche technical communities. A badge of honor! The day with the most downloads was Jul 26, 2024 with 1,154 downloads.

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