R devel - Aug 2008 - na.action does not return na.action element of lm object

I'm not sure if this is the official behavior but I would expect the
na.action function applied to a lm object to return the na.action.
Here is what I mean.
> x<-0:10
> y<-x+rnorm(10)
Warning message:
In x + rnorm(10) :
  longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object
length
> y[5]<-NA
> m<-lm(y~x)
> m$na.action
5
5
attr(,"class")
[1] "omit"
> na.action(m)
NULL

I would expect na.action(m) to return m$na.action.  This is simple
enough to fix with
na.action.lm<-function(object,...)object$na.action
but I would expect that this would already be included in the base.
Is there a reason that it is not?  I did a search through the archives
but did not turn up anything relevant.

Thanks,
Andrew Redd

Well, the na.action component (which may or may not be present in an lm 
object) is *not* what na.action is documented to give:

Value:

      The action which will be applied to 'object' whenever
'NA's are
      not desired.

So this needs some re-working, and it is not just "lm" objects that
have
the na.action information as a component and not an attribute.

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Andrew Redd wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the official behavior but I would expect the
> na.action function applied to a lm object to return the na.action.
> Here is what I mean.
>
>> x<-0:10
>> y<-x+rnorm(10)
> Warning message:
> In x + rnorm(10) :
>  longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length
>> y[5]<-NA
>> m<-lm(y~x)
>> m$na.action
> 5
> 5
> attr(,"class")
> [1] "omit"
>> na.action(m)
> NULL
>
> I would expect na.action(m) to return m$na.action.  This is simple
> enough to fix with
> na.action.lm<-function(object,...)object$na.action
> but I would expect that this would already be included in the base.
> Is there a reason that it is not?  I did a search through the archives
> but did not turn up anything relevant.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew Redd
>
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