[R] differing behavior of mean(), median() and sd() with na.rm

[Ivan Calandra]

Dear useRs,

I have just noticed that when input is only NA with na.rm=TRUE, mean() 
results in NaN, whereas median() and sd() produce NA. Shouldn't it all 
be the same? I think NA makes more sense than NaN in that case.

x <- c(NA, NA, NA) mean(x, na.rm=TRUE) [1] NaN median(x, na.rm=TRUE) [1] 
NAsd(x, na.rm=TRUE) [1] NA

Thanks for any feedback.

Best,
Ivan

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