[Rd] 'mean' is not reverted in median() as NEWS says (PR#13731)

zhengxin at mail.nih.gov zhengxin at mail.nih.gov
Fri May 29 18:50:15 CEST 2009


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In NEWS, it says "median.default() was altered in 2.8.1 to use sum() rather
	than mean(), although it was still documented to use mean().
	This caused problems for POSIXt objects, for which mean() but
	not sum() makes sense, so the change has been reverted."

But it's not reverted yet.



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