[R] median Q?

[Joshua Wiley]

Hello,

summary() removes NAs by default.  You can get the same results using

median(year, na.rm=TRUE)

see ?median

HTH,

Josh

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Vlatka Matkovic Puljic
<v.matkovic.puljic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have dataset n1 and v1 (years).
> when i ask
> median(year)
> [1] NA
>
> but if i put summary of dataset n1:
> summary(n1)
> R produces median (together with min/max/mean....)
>
> why it is so?
>
>
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