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

[Rolf Turner]

Just to add to the confusion, on my system I get NA --- which I 
understand to be
the correct value --- from all of min(NA,"bla"), min("bla",NA), 
min(c(NA,"bla")), and
min(c("bla",NA)).  When I append the argument na.rm=TRUE to each of the 
calls,
I get "bla" from each.

So, no bug in my system.

> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16)
> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] misc_0.0-15
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_3.0.1

Are the rest of youse guys using Windoze?  No wonder ....

     cheers,

     Rolf

On 09/27/13 05:55, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 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
>
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