[R] Does anyone.... worth a warning?!? No warning at all

[Mike Meredith]

It's always seemed to me that 'mean' behaved as expected, and 'max' et al
were peculiar. If you passed 2 or more vectors to a function would you
really expect it to concatenate them before doing it's proper job? I'd
rather expect it to behave like 'pmax' and compare them element by element.

Maybe 'max' should generate a warning.

Cheers,  Mike



Tom Willems-2 wrote:
> 
> dear Mathew
> 
> mean is a Generic function 
> 
> mean(x...)
> 
> in wich x is a data object, like a  data frame a list a numeric vector...
> 
> so in your example it only reads the first character and then reports it.
> 
> try x = c(1,1,2)
> mean(x)
> 
> kind regards,
> Tom
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