Re: [R] approx with NAs

2019-05-08 Thread Martin Maechler
Dear Robert, this is really not asking for help about R but rather wishing for new features of a (very long) existing R function. Hence this is a topic for the 'R-devel' mailing list (https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/R-devel ) rather than 'R-help'; see also https://www.r-project.org/mail.h

[R] approx with NAs

2019-05-03 Thread Robert Almgren
There is something I do not think is right in the approx() function in base R, with method="constant" and in the presence of NA values. I have 3.6.0, but the behavior seems to be the same in earlier versions. My suggested fix is to add an "na.rm" argument to approx(), as in mean(). If this argu