On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Richard Saba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There seems to be an error in the summary() function when applied to "ts" > class objects. The results of a call to summary( ), on the R "ts" data set > USAccDeaths , reports the wrong value for Max. The value reported by the > summary function is 11320. The max( ) function returns the correct value > 11317, the July 1993 value. Coercing the data to a data.frame and calling > summary returns the correct max value. A search of R -help found a post in > 2007 that mentioned a problem but attributed it to rounding errors. But this > is too large a difference to account for a simple rounding error.
Notice that all the numbers in : > > summary(USAccDeaths) > Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. > 6892 8089 8728 8789 9323 11320 have four significant digits and then carefully read the documentation for the digits argument of summary. That should suggest both the cause and a solution. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
