[Rd] (NA || x) and (NA && y) {another "bug" } (PR#749)
maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch
maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch
Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:17:16 +0100 (MET)
>>>>> "MM" == Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:
>>>>> "TL" == Thomas Lumley <thomas@biostat.washington.edu> writes:
TL> However, it would also be reasonable for NA || B to evaluate B and
TL> return TRUE or NA depending on the value. This is what S-PLUS 5
TL> does, so at least it's an incompatibility.
TL> The R documentation says
TL> The longer form [ie ||] evaluates left to right examining only the
TL> first element of each vector. Evaluation
TL> proceeds only until the result is determined.
TL> which at least seems incomplete as NA | TRUE gives TRUE, but
TL> NA || TRUE gives an error.
MM> Looks over-cautious to me as well.
........
MM> 2) really do the same as S, not only Splus 5.x, but also 3.4 which
MM> used to be our prototype, namely
>> NA || TRUE
MM> [1] TRUE
>> NA && FALSE
MM> [1] FALSE
>> NA && TRUE
MM> [1] NA
>> NA || FALSE
MM> [1] NA
MM> The advantage of "1)" is to catch programming errors early in some
MM> cases, however for consistency (with "|" and "&") and
MM> compatibility, I'm voting for a change to "2)" behaviour.
This is now in "R-devel" aka ``R 1.2 to be'' (slightly less than 20 days)
Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
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