It's always seemed to me that 'mean' behaved as expected, and 'max' et al were peculiar. If you passed 2 or more vectors to a function would you really expect it to concatenate them before doing it's proper job? I'd rather expect it to behave like 'pmax' and compare them element by element.
Maybe 'max' should generate a warning. Cheers, Mike Tom Willems-2 wrote: > > dear Mathew > > mean is a Generic function > > mean(x...) > > in wich x is a data object, like a data frame a list a numeric vector... > > so in your example it only reads the first character and then reports it. > > try x = c(1,1,2) > mean(x) > > kind regards, > Tom > > > Disclaimer: click here > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Does-anyone....-worth-a-warning-%21--No-warning-at-all-tf4297988.html#a12247316 Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
