R/near.R

In poorman: A Poor Man's Dependency Free Recreation of 'dplyr'

#' Compare two numeric vectors
#'
#' 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.
#'
#' @param x,y Numeric vectors to compare
#' @param tol Tolerance of comparison.
#'
#' @examples
#' sqrt(2) ^ 2 == 2
#' near(sqrt(2) ^ 2, 2)
#'
#' @export
near <- function(x, y, tol = .Machine$double.eps^0.5) {
  abs(x - y) < tol
}