is.natural.number: Check if numbers are natural

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Check if numbers are natural

Description

Vectorized function for checking if numbers are natural or not. Helps in checking if a vector is of type "order".

Usage

is.natural.number(x, tol = .Machine$double.eps^0.5, ...)

Arguments

x	a vector of numbers
tol	tolerence to floating point issues.
...	(not currently in use)

Value

logical - is the entered number natural or not.

Author(s)

Marco Gallotta (a.k.a: marcog), Tal Galili

Source

This function was written by marcog, as an answer to my question here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4562257/what-is-the-fastest-way-to-check-if-a-number-is-a-positive-natural-number-in-r

See Also

is.numeric, is.double, is.integer

Examples

is.natural.number(1) # is TRUE
(x <- seq(-1, 5, by = 0.5))
is.natural.number(x)
# is.natural.number( "a" )
all(is.natural.number(x))

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