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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 13-09-27 6:00 AM, Magnus Thor Torfason wrote:
> Thanks for putting together such a quick fix! Unfortunately the policy
> for the system that I'm working on doesn't allow unreleased versions, so
> I'll have to work around this for a little bit longer. But I'll ask my
> sysadmins to install 3.0.3 as soon as it gets released.


As a workaround, it looked to me as though it would always be safe to 
use the single argument version, i.e. the fact that min(c("bla", NA)) 
got it right was not just a fluke.  It's a little bit less efficient 
than using two arguments, but probably not to the extent that you'd notice.

Duncan Murdoch


>
> Best,
> Magnus
>
> On 9/27/2013 1:38 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> Nice catch.  The good news is that min() works in the C locale; the bad
>> news is that max() doesn't.  But both work after today's patch.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>
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