------- Start of forwarded message ------- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:44:57 +0100 To: Steve Mongin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: range( <dates>, na.rm = TRUE ) In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Kurt Hornik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.1.3-2; AVE: 7.6.0.34; VDF: 7.0.0.210; host: fsme.wu-wien.ac.at) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.90.3/4768/Tue Nov 13 18:25:08 2007 on pocken.wu-wien.ac.at X-Virus-Status: Clean
>>>>> Steve Mongin writes: > Dear CRAN: > I am running 'R' on Linux as follows: >> version > _ > platform i686-redhat-linux-gnu > arch i686 > os linux-gnu > system i686, linux-gnu > status > major 2 > minor 6.0 > year 2007 > month 10 > day 03 > svn rev 43063 > language R > version.string R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03) > I have a question about the behavior of "range()" with missing dates. > With the previous version (2.4?) , the command: >> range( as.Date( c( "2007-11-06", NA ) ), na.rm = TRUE ) > yielded: >> [1] "2007-11-06" "2007-11-06" > Now I get: >> [1] NA NA > Is this a bug? > Yes, I see in the "What's New" page: > "The Math2 and Summary groups (round, signif, all, any, max, min, > summ, prod, range) are now primitive." > Is the "primitive" characteristic supposed to behave as above with > missing dates? > Thanks for any help that you can provide. This is really a question for r-devel or r-bugs, I think, but not for the CRAN maintainers. I would think it is a bug. Perhaps simply file a bug report? Best - -k ------- End of forwarded message ------- ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
