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From: tlumley at u.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:40:12 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Rd] Suggestions to speed up median() and has.na()
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
> If it's not dataframes, it will be something else.  I think it's highly
> desirable that any(is.na(x)) == anyNA(x) within base packages, and we
> should make it straightforward to maintain this identity in contributed
> packages.
>
> By the way, I think Bill's suggestion of calling it anyMissing makes a
> lot of sense.
>

Here we agree.

 	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle



[Rd] Suggestions to speed up median() and has.na()
Thomas Lumley