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

[Peter Dalgaard]

zhengxin at mail.nih.gov wrote:
> Full_Name: 
> Version: 2.9.0
> OS: windows, linux
> Submission from: (NULL) (128.231.21.125)
> 
> 
> 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.

That text is not in the NEWS file for 2.9.0. And the NEWS file that it 
is in is not for 2.9.0, and does not list that change under "CHANGES IN 
R VERSION 2.9.0".

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