søn, 19 02 2012 kl. 08:53 -0500, skrev Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso: > 2012/2/19 Alois Schlögl <alois.schlo...@ist.ac.at>: > > The users of the NaN-toolbox can choose the NaN-propagating function > > sum() or the NaN-skipping function sumskipnan(). > > Oh, this is nice. I'm sorry, I thought you also shadowed the core sum > function. > > But why do you shadow the other functions? Matlab renames them instead: > > http://www.mathworks.com/help/toolbox/stats/nanmean.html > http://www.mathworks.com/help/toolbox/stats/nanstd.html > http://www.mathworks.com/help/toolbox/stats/nansum.html > > I still think that having mean() do NaN-skipping is and unexpected > (and curiously enough, your package is the first Google hit for "nan > skipping behvaiour") but I think it's ok to do so if you rename the > functions to a name that is obviously not the usual NaN-abiding sum(), > mean(), and std().
The 'statistics' package provide such functions, I believe. I do not use the 'NaN' package, but I always felt that the main attraction of this package was that it overrides the default behaviour. And when you don't want such behaviour? Well, you just don't load the package. I guess, this makes the package more suitable for power users, but there's nothing wrong with that. I wouldn't load the package by default in any binary distribution, but otherwise I don't see any issues here. Ah, well, I guess this just boils down to personal preference. Søren ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
