From hosking at watson.ibm.com  Fri Apr 16 18:20:46 2004
From: hosking at watson.ibm.com (hosking@watson.ibm.com)
Date: Fri Apr 16 18:20:48 2004
Subject: [Rd] summary() with argument of class difftime (PR#6780)
Message-ID: <20040416162046.67F7F10495@slim.kubism.ku.dk>

Full_Name: J. R. M. Hosking
Version: 1.9.0
OS: Windows 2000
Submission from: (NULL) (129.34.20.23)


> dt<-as.Date("2002-03-04")-as.Date("2001-02-03")
> jstr(dt)
difftime(units:days)(1) 394 
> summary(dt)
Error in Summary.difftime(..., na.rm = na.rm) : 
        sum not defined for difftime objects



When x is of class difftime, either sum(x) should be permitted or summary(x)
should not try to compute the mean.

(R 1.9.0, Windows binary from CRAN)


[Rd] summary() with argument of class difftime (PR#6780)
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