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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 26/09/2013 11:07 AM, Magnus Thor Torfason wrote:
> 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"

This should be all fixed now (at least for min and max; it's possible 
some of the other summary functions still have oddities). It's in 
R-devel, soon r-patched.  All of the above examples should now give a 
character NA.

Duncan Murdoch