On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Rolf Turner <rolf.tur...@xtra.co.nz> wrote: > On 09/27/13 11:07, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> >> On 13-09-26 5:32 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: >>> >>> >>> Just to add to the confusion, on my system I get NA --- which I >>> understand to be >>> the correct value --- from all of min(NA,"bla"), min("bla",NA), >>> min(c(NA,"bla")), and >>> min(c("bla",NA)). When I append the argument na.rm=TRUE to each of the >>> calls, >>> I get "bla" from each. >>> >>> So, no bug in my system. >> >> >> I've just built a 3.0.1 version, and I definitely see the bug there. What >> do you get from these expressions? >> >> str(min(NA, "bla")) >> str(min("bla", NA)) >> str(min(NA_character_, "bla")) >> >> I get >> >> > str(min(NA, "bla")) >> int NA >> > str(min("bla", NA)) >> chr "bla" >> > str(min(NA_character_, "bla")) >> chr "bla" >> >> on both Windows and OSX R 3.0.1. After today's patch, I get >> >> chr NA >> >> for all three. > > > I get: > >> str(min(NA, "bla")) > int NA > > str(min("bla", NA)) > chr NA >> str(min(NA_character_, "bla")) > chr NA > > Which looks to me to be as it should be. How come my system's so good > compared to others? :-)
It's not; you just have your locale set differently; > Sys.getlocale() [1] "LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=C;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C" > for(l in letters) print(min(l, NA)) [1] "a" [1] "b" [1] "c" [1] "d" [1] "e" [1] "f" [1] "g" [1] "h" [1] "i" [1] "j" [1] "k" [1] "l" [1] "m" [1] "n" [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA > Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL", "C") [1] "LC_CTYPE=C;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=C;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=C;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C" > for(l in letters) print(min(l, NA)) [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA [1] NA > sessionInfo() R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=C LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=C LC_COLLATE=C [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base Best, Ista > > cheers, > > Rolf > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.