Hi Kingsley, On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 09:05:57PM -0800, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: > [...] > The main reason I'm writing is datamash's > "antimode" statistical grouping operation did not > work as I expected. > > datamash's man page says its "antimode" > statistical grouping operation is for the "least > common value". > > But, my testing suggests datamash's "antimode" > instead returns the lowest value. > > My simple test is to > > 1.) copy > > echo -e "1\n1\n2" | datamash antimode 1 > > to the bash command prompt and > > 2.) press the <enter> key. > > At least on my computer, it returns "1". > > But, I expected it to return "2", because "2" is > the least common value. > > I suppose maybe either datamash's man page and/or code > could be changed so they're consistent.
For me, this also looks like a bug. I think that the code is wrong and the man page describes the intended behavior. I hope that I'll have time to look into this in about two weeks. Kind regards, Erik
