R How to use which() with floating point values?

Question

I have run into the same problem as described at R which () function returns integer(0)

price = seq(4,7, by=0.0025)
allPrices = as.data.frame(price)
lookupP         


        

Answer 1

A manual approach to this involves specifying the tolerance for the comparison and doing:

# tol = 1e-7: comparison will be TRUE if numbers are equal up to 
#   7 decimal places
tol = 1e-7
which(abs(allPrices$price - lookupPrice) < tol)