I am getting started with the boot package and boot command. As a first
step I tried the following. Something is wrong, but i can't see what. Any
advice would be much appreciated.

> x = runif(10)
> mean(x)
[1] 0.467626212374307
> boot(x, mean, R=100)
Error in mean.default(data, original, ...) :
  'trim' must be numeric of length one

Enter a frame number, or 0 to exit

1: boot(x, mean, R = 100)
2: statistic(data, original, ...)
3: mean.default(data, original, ...)
4: stop("'trim' must be numeric of length one")
5: (function ()
{
    utils::recover()
})()

When I enter a trim parameter I get the following:

> boot(x, mean, R=100, trim=0)
[...some output omitted...]
Warning in if (na.rm) x <- x[!is.na(x)] :
  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
Warning in if (na.rm) x <- x[!is.na(x)] :
  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
Warning in if (na.rm) x <- x[!is.na(x)] :
  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
Warning in if (na.rm) x <- x[!is.na(x)] :
  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
Warning in if (na.rm) x <- x[!is.na(x)] :
  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
Warning in if (na.rm) x <- x[!is.na(x)] :
  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
Warning in if (na.rm) x <- x[!is.na(x)] :
  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
Warning in if (na.rm) x <- x[!is.na(x)] :
  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used

ORDINARY NONPARAMETRIC BOOTSTRAP


Call:
boot(data = x, statistic = mean, R = 100, trim = 0)


Bootstrap Statistics :
             original  bias    std. error
t1* 0.467626212374307       0           0
>

When I enter an na.rm value as well the following is output:

> boot(x, mean, R=100, trim=0, na.rm=T)

ORDINARY NONPARAMETRIC BOOTSTRAP


Call:
boot(data = x, statistic = mean, R = 100, trim = 0, na.rm = T)


Bootstrap Statistics :
             original  bias    std. error
t1* 0.467626212374307       0           0
>

Notice that the standard error is 0, indicating that no bootstrapping has
actually taken place.

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