max(NULL)
Thomas Lumley
thomas@biostat.washington.edu
Thu, 3 Dec 1998 13:14:32 -0800 (PST)
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> In Splus 3.3 and previous to R 0.63 max(NULL) returned NA and now it returns
>
> > max(NULL)
> Warning in max(..., na.rm = na.rm) : no finite arguments to min/max; returning
> extreme.
> [1] -2147483647
>
> Is this a bug or an intentional change?
It's intentional: ie max of an empty set is -Inf, min is +Inf
For a while it happened silently, but now you get warned.
-thomas
Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle
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