Re: [Rd] [External] Re: zapsmall(x) for scalar x

2023-12-18 Thread Steve Martin
Does mFUN() really need to be a function of x and the NA values of x? I can't think of a case where it would be used on anything but the non-NA values of x. I think it would be easier to specify a different mFUN() (and document this new argument) if the function has one argument and is applied to

Re: [Rd] [External] Re: zapsmall(x) for scalar x

2023-12-18 Thread Serguei Sokol via R-devel
Le 18/12/2023 à 11:24, Martin Maechler a écrit : Serguei Sokol via R-devel on Mon, 18 Dec 2023 10:29:02 +0100 writes: > Le 17/12/2023 à 18:26, Barry Rowlingson a écrit : >> I think what's been missed is that zapsmall works relative to the absolute >> largest value in the vec

Re: [Rd] [External] Re: zapsmall(x) for scalar x

2023-12-18 Thread Martin Maechler
> Serguei Sokol via R-devel > on Mon, 18 Dec 2023 10:29:02 +0100 writes: > Le 17/12/2023 à 18:26, Barry Rowlingson a écrit : >> I think what's been missed is that zapsmall works relative to the absolute >> largest value in the vector. Hence if there's only one >> item

Re: [Rd] [External] Re: zapsmall(x) for scalar x

2023-12-18 Thread Serguei Sokol via R-devel
Le 17/12/2023 à 18:26, Barry Rowlingson a écrit : I think what's been missed is that zapsmall works relative to the absolute largest value in the vector. Hence if there's only one item in the vector, it is the largest, so its not zapped. The function's raison d'etre isn't to replace absolutely sm