[R] Problem with mean()

[Jeff Newmiller]

Read ?mean.

Look at the argument list.

The mean function only applies to the first argument.

On July 21, 2018 9:39:42 AM PDT, John Kane via R-help <r-help using r-project.org> wrote:
>Either I am doing something very stupid or my R installation has a
>glitch. What am I missing?
>dd1  <- 50
>dd2  <- 54
>
>mean(dd1, dd2)
>[1] 50  # wrong
>
>(dd1 + dd2)/2
>[1] 52 # correct
>
>aa  <- c(48, 52, 56, 54, 52)
>
>mean(aa)
>[1] 52.4 # correct
>
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