[Rd] mean (PR#10864)

Greg Snow Greg.Snow at imail.org
Thu Feb 28 18:47:05 CET 2008


Look again at the whole function of mean.default.  All of the missing
values have already been removed if na.rm==TRUE before the call to
stats::median, so why waste time looking for missing values that are not
there.

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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
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> Function 'mean.default' calls function 'stats::median' if 
> 'trim >= 0.5'. In that case the call should be 
> 'stats::median(x, na.rm = na.rm)' instead of 
> 'stats::median(x, na.rm = FALSE)'.
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