Søren Højsgaard
2006-Oct-12 20:44 UTC
[Rd] Should NA's in summary() output always be reported???
Consider> summary(1:5)Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. 1 2 3 3 4 5> summary(c(1:5,NA))Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. NA's 1 2 3 3 4 5 1 Wouldn't it be more stringent if "NA's" was also reported in the first case?? Regards S?ren
Ferdinand Alimadhi
2006-Oct-12 22:08 UTC
[Rd] Should NA's in summary() output always be reported???
Søren, If you think summary() should report NA's, then it's better to post your question on r-devel list (r-devel@r-project.org <mailto:r-devel@r-project.org>). I think that summary(1:5) is not reporting NA's because there is no NA in your data. For the same reason it's not reporting NaN's, Inf's etc. Regards, Ferdinand Søren Højsgaard wrote:>Consider > > >>summary(1:5) >> >> > Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. > 1 2 3 3 4 5 > > >>summary(c(1:5,NA)) >> >> > Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. NA's > 1 2 3 3 4 5 1 > >Wouldn't it be more stringent if "NA's" was also reported in the first case?? >Regards >Søren > >______________________________________________ >R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > >-- Ferdinand Alimadhi Programmer / Analyst Harvard University The Institute for Quantitative Social Science (617) 496-0187 falimadhi@iq.harvard.edu www.iq.harvard.edu [[alternative HTML version deleted]]