[Rd] Unnecessary apostrophe in English base::summary() NA count output?
Hernando Cortina
hcortin@71 @ending from gm@il@com
Mon Dec 17 09:35:14 CET 2018
Hello, this is quite a minor issue but as summary() is in all likelihood
one of the most widely used functions in R I decided to email this list.
When producing a count of missing values, summary() in English generates an
unnecessary and grammatically incorrect apostrophe (NA's rather than NAs)
in its table header. For example:
> summary(c(1,2,NA,3,4,NA))
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. NA's
1.00 1.75 2.50 2.50 3.25 4.00 2
The issue can be traced to this file:
https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/base/R/summary.R
Unless this is being done intentionally for some reason, the solution would
seem to be to replace the string "NA's" with "NAs". There are 9
occurrences in the file.
Thank you very much.
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