Example: > set.seed(19) > summary( c(NA, runif(10,1,100), NaN) ) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. NA's 7.771 24.850 43.040 43.940 63.540 83.830 2.000 Why isn't the number of NA's just "2" instead of the "2.000" shown above? efg