On 22/08/2018 10:33 AM, Ivan Calandra wrote:
Dear useRs,
I have just noticed that when input is only NA with na.rm=TRUE, mean()
results in NaN, whereas median() and sd() produce NA. Shouldn't it all
be the same? I think NA makes more sense than NaN in that case.
The mean can be defined as sum(x)/length(x), so if x is length 0, you
get 0/0 which is NaN.
median(x) is documented in its help page to give NA for x of length 0.
sd(x) is documented to give an error for such x and NA for length 1, but
it gives NA for both.
Duncan Murdoch
x <- c(NA, NA, NA) mean(x, na.rm=TRUE) [1] NaN median(x, na.rm=TRUE) [1]
NAsd(x, na.rm=TRUE) [1] NA
Thanks for any feedback.
Best,
Ivan
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