Dear list,

I found an odd behavior of the mean function; it is allowed to do something that you probably shouldn't: If you calculate mean() of a sequence of numbers (without declaring them as vector), mean() then just computes mean() of the first element. Is there a reason why there is no warning, like in sd for example?

Example code:
mean(1,2,3,4)
sd(1,2,3,4)

Best regards
Christian

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