On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Katharina May
<may.kathar...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear R Users,
>
> I've got a strange problem, which I do not really understand:
>
> when I use na.spline from the zoo package, the option na.rm is just being
> ignored, see this adjusted example from the na.spline help page:
> ########################
> d0 <- as.Date("2000-01-01")
> z <- zoo(c(NA, 11, 13, NA, 15, NA), d0 + 1:6)
> na.spline(z)
> na.spline(z, na.rm = FALSE)
> na.spline(z, na.rm = T)
> #######################
>
> In all 3 cases, the output looks like this with the trailing NA being
> replaced:
> 2000-01-02 2000-01-03 2000-01-04 2000-01-05 2000-01-06 2000-01-07
> 8.333333 11.000000 13.000000 14.333333 15.000000 15.000000
>
> Am I missing something here?
> Any help is very much appreciated...
>
If the result of the spline interpolation still results in NAs then
na.rm=TRUE will remove any leading NAs. It may be that all currently
supported methods produce no NAs in which case this argument would
only be there for compatability with na.approx and in case future
additional spline methods do produce NAs.
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