Look again at the whole function of mean.default. All of the missing values have already been removed if na.rm==TRUE before the call to stats::median, so why waste time looking for missing values that are not there.
-- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare [EMAIL PROTECTED] (801) 408-8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Rd] mean (PR#10864) > > Full_Name: Paul PONCET > Version: 2.6.0 > OS: Windows 2000 > Submission from: (NULL) (83.137.240.218) > > > Function 'mean.default' calls function 'stats::median' if > 'trim >= 0.5'. In that case the call should be > 'stats::median(x, na.rm = na.rm)' instead of > 'stats::median(x, na.rm = FALSE)'. > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
