[R] strange behaviour of median
Karl Ove Hufthammer
karl at huftis.org
Thu Feb 4 12:04:32 CET 2010
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:32:15 +0100 Petr PIKAL <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>
wrote:
> > median(df1)
> [1] 6.5 10.5
>
> Rather weird, AFAIK there shall not be an issue with data frame at least I
> did not find any in help page.
It's not exactly a bug, since 'median' is not documented to work on data
frames (use 'sapply' or 'apply' for that), but it's certainly surprising
and confusing behaviour. I think 'median' should either be changed to
work on data frames, or to produce a warning when used on data frames.
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Karl Ove Hufthammer
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