[R] prblem with NA

Petr PIKAL petr.pikal at precheza.cz
Tue Jan 6 12:11:27 CET 2009


Hi

r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 06.01.2009 10:02:12:

> On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Petr PIKAL wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Logical vectors can be treated like numeric with TRUE=1 and FALSE=0,
> 
> More accurately, 'like integer' ('numeric' often means 'double').
> 
> > I learned that somewhere but it is not mentioned in help page for 
> > ?logical so it is not so easy to find.
> 
> Hmm: it *is* in 'An Introduction to R'.

Well, I have read it about 10 years ago so I remember the fact but not the 
source. However spending few hours by reading introduction can prevent 
many question from novice user (I mean that the beginner shall spend it, 
not yoursef :-).

Petr

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