[R] min(NA,"bla") != min("bla", NA)

[Magnus Thor Torfason]

Just ran these two statements:

 > min(NA,"bla")
[1] NA

 > min("bla", NA)
[1] "bla"

And then reran with explicit na.rm=FALSE

 > min(NA,"bla", na.rm=FALSE)
[1] NA

 > min("bla", NA, na.rm=FALSE)
[1] "bla"


That seems wrong. Would this be considered a bug or is there a way to 
explain these results in a different way?

Best,
Magnus

ps. Tested on R 3.0.1, 32 bit for Windows (as well as some older versions)