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> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:44:57 +0100
> To: Steve Mongin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Re: range( <dates>, na.rm =3D TRUE )
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>>>>>> Steve Mongin writes:
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>> Dear CRAN:
>> I am running 'R' on Linux as follows:
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>> version.string R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03)
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>> I have a question about the behavior of "range()" with missing dates.
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>> With the previous version (2.4?) , the command:
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>>> range( as.Date( c( "2007-11-06", NA ) ), na.rm =3D TRUE )
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>> yielded:
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>>> [1] "2007-11-06" "2007-11-06"
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>> Now I get:
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>>> [1] NA NA
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>> Is this a bug?
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>> Yes, I see in the "What's New" page:
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>> "The Math2 and Summary groups (round, signif, all, any, max, min,
>> summ, prod, range) are now primitive."
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>> Is the "primitive" characteristic supposed to behave as above with
>> missing dates?
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>> Thanks for any help that you can provide.
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> This is really a question for r-devel or r-bugs, I think, but not for
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> I would think it is a bug. Perhaps simply file a bug report?
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Again? ;-)
The bug is here:
> range.default
function (..., na.rm =3D FALSE, finite =3D FALSE)
{
x <- c(..., recursive =3D TRUE)
if (is.numeric(x)) {
if (finite)
x <- x[is.finite(x)]
else if (na.rm)
x <- x[!is.na(x)]
}
c(min(x), max(x))
}
<environment: namespace:base>
Objects of class Date are not considered numeric, so we end up taking
min and max without removing NA.
One solution could be
if (is.numeric(x) || inherits(x, "Date") ){....}
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