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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 18 06:03:15 +0000 2007 ------- My general opinion is that this is an inconsistency in how spreadsheet applications handle empty cells/missing values. [And more generally how data is handled.] This is both a problem of OOo and of MS Excel. [And to a smaller degree of end user who do not understand the concept of missing values and of data types.] More advanced statistical packages [like http://cran.R-project.org] have a special "NA" data type for missing values and are able to handle more consistently such situations. [R is not a spreadsheet, so the functions differ and cannot be directly compared, but it has a separate 'NA' data-type. The data-handling is built in a different way, too. E.g. conversions from a user-defined data type are not implicit, but the creator of the data-type implements *inside* the new data-type specific conversion routines. So, the *responsibility* belongs to the implementor of the new data type to make the conversions, when a different data type is requested, allowing therefore for consistency!] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
