On 29-Mar-09 20:43:33, Rob Hyndman wrote: > For some reason, the help file on quantile() says "Missing values are > ignored" in the description of the x argument. Yet this is only true > if na.rm=TRUE. I suggest the help file is amended to remove the words > "Missing values are ignored". > Rob
True enough -- in that if, as in the default, na.rm == FALSE, then applying quantile() to a vector with NAs yields the error message: quantile(X1) # Error in quantile.default(X1) : # missing values and NaN's not allowed if 'na.rm' is FALSE So either you have na.rm==TRUE, in which case it doesn't need saying that "Missing values are ignored" (unless you really want to spell it out in the form "Missing values are ignored if called with na.rm=TRUE; otherwise an error message is produced"), or you have na.rm==FALSE, in which case you get the error message and know where you stand. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 29-Mar-09 Time: 23:08:50 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
