Bert, R is used all over the place, sometimes not visibly.
A search shows the NY times using it in 2011, 2009, ...: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.h tml https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/03/how-the-new-york-times-uses-r-f or-data-visualization.html There also seem to be several packages for interfacing with the NY Times, albeit that does not mean much about their usage. However, the error message using the phrase "NaN" is not a guarantee as there are other languages that use the concept, albeit may not capitalize it the same way. But in an error message, any programmer can be setting up the text. According to this reference, Rust and ECMAScript also call it a NaN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaN I am a tad confused it lists a form of "NaN%" without specifying if any language specifically uses it and your example ended with a percent sign. -----Original Message----- From: R-help <r-help-boun...@r-project.org> On Behalf Of Bert Gunter Sent: Friday, October 29, 2021 11:36 AM To: R-help <r-help@r-project.org> Subject: [R] Probably off topic but I hope amusing There was a little discussion today (yet again) about floating point arithmetic. Perhaps related to this, I subscribe to the online NYTimes, which flashes U.S. stock index prices at the top of its home page. Today, instead of the Nasdaq price being flashed, there was this: undefined-NaN% I wonder if this means that R is being used as a backend for this or whether this way of displaying what I think is 0/0 in FP is common. Anyway, what do you think most readers reaction to this was?! Best to all, Bert [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
