R devel - Jan 2003 - table() with option "exclude=NULL" (PR#2491)

Full_Name: Jerome Asselin
Version: 1.6.2
OS: redhat linux 7.2
Submission from: (NULL) (142.103.173.179)



Bug or feature? Hard to say...
But it sure would be nice if table()
would label the frequency of NA's as
it does for NaN's.

Regards,
Jerome
> table(c(2,NA,1,1,1),exclude=NULL)
1 2
3 1 1
> table(c(2,NA,1,1,1,NaN),exclude=NULL)
  1   2  NaN
  3   1   1   1

#For sake of comparison, Splus returns:
> table(c(2,NA,1,1,1,NaN),exclude=NULL)
 1 2 NA NaN
 3 1  1   1

It's a feature, as a few seconds' exploration would have confirmed.
> x <- table(c(2,NA,1,1,1,NaN),exclude=NULL)
> names(x)
[1] "1"   "2"   NA    "NaN"

so R *does* label them, and as (unlike NaNs) it does not know what they 
are, it *prints* them as blanks.  (I wanted to change that but there was
resistance.)

Remember S does not have missing values in character strings.

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 jerome@hivnet.ubc.ca wrote:
> Full_Name: Jerome Asselin
> Version: 1.6.2
> OS: redhat linux 7.2
> Submission from: (NULL) (142.103.173.179)
> 
> 
> 
> Bug or feature? Hard to say...
> But it sure would be nice if table()
> would label the frequency of NA's as
> it does for NaN's.
It does, so isn't R nice to you!
> Regards,
> Jerome
> 
> > table(c(2,NA,1,1,1),exclude=NULL)
> 
> 1 2
> 3 1 1
> > table(c(2,NA,1,1,1,NaN),exclude=NULL)
> 
>   1   2  NaN
>   3   1   1   1
> 
> #For sake of comparison, Splus returns:
> > table(c(2,NA,1,1,1,NaN),exclude=NULL)
>  1 2 NA NaN
>  3 1  1   1
> 
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