From brahm@alum.mit.edu  Thu Oct  4 17:10:04 2001
From: brahm@alum.mit.edu (David Brahm)
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 12:10:04 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Rd] Characters subsetted with NA (was: Several R vs S-Plus issues)
Message-ID: <200110041610.f94GA4U25288@arbres1a.FMR.Com>

Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> wrote:
> Basically, we should have a *real* NA for string variables, distinct from
> the character string "NA" and propagating like any other NA's.

I could go for that.  How would it appear when cat()ed or print()ed?

		      -- David Brahm (brahm@alum.mit.edu)
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[Rd] Characters subsetted with NA (was: Several R vs S-Plus issues)
David Brahm