[R] Weird problem with median on a factor
Simon Fear
Simon.Fear at synequanon.com
Fri Oct 31 12:18:20 CET 2003
Final guess as to observed behaviour: in the first case after
removal of NAs there were an odd number of observations
(so that sum was not called within the code for median).
In your second call I suspect that even though you got
an integer answer, it was found as sum(2,2)/2.
It seems to me the best way to deal with this "bug" would
be to make calling median with a factor argument be an
immediate error. Or just trust users never to attempt such
a thing ...
Simon Fear
Senior Statistician
Syne qua non Ltd
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