[R] What's wrong with MEAN?
Rainer Schuermann
rainer.schuermann at gmx.net
Tue May 22 11:18:24 CEST 2012
> mean( 16, 18 )
[1] 16
> mean( c( 16, 18 ) )
[1] 17
On Tuesday 22 May 2012 02:10:27 Vincy Pyne wrote:
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> Dear R helpers,
>
> I have recently installed R version 2.15.0
>
> I just wanted to calculate
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> mean(16, 18)
>
> Surprisingly I got answer as
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> > mean(16, 18)
> [1] 16
>
>
> > mean(18, 16)
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> [1] 18
>
> > mean(14, 11, 17, 9, 5, 18)
> [1] 14
>
>
> So instead of calculating simple Arithmetic average, mean command is generating first element as average. I restarted the machine, changed the machine, but still the reply is same. I have been using this mean function ever since I strated learning R, but this has never happened.
>
> Kindly guide
>
> Vincy
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