On Apr 27, 2011, at 19:44 , Patrick Burns wrote: > I would think a method in analogy to > 'mean.data.frame' would be a logical choice. > But I'm presuming there might be an argument > against that or 'median.data.frame' would already > exist.
Only if someone had a better plan. As you are probably well aware, what you are currently seeing is a rather exquisite mashup of methods getting applied to objects they shouldn't be applied to. Some curious effects are revealed, e.g. this little beauty: > sort(df3.3) Error in `[.data.frame`(x, order(x, na.last = na.last, decreasing = decreasing)) : undefined columns selected > names(df3.3)<-NULL > sort(df3.3) NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 1 1 7 10 NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL 2 2 8 11 <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> 3 3 9 12 <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> Warning message: In format.data.frame(x, digits = digits, na.encode = FALSE) : corrupt data frame: columns will be truncated or padded with NAs -- Peter Dalgaard Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel