Full_Name: Marek Ancukiewicz
Version: 1.8.1
OS: Linux
Submission from: (NULL) (132.183.12.87)


Function cor() incorrectly handles missing observation with method="spearman":

> x <- c(1,2,3,NA,5,6)
> y <- c(4,NA,2,5,1,3)
> cor(x,y,use="complete.obs",method="s")
[1] -0.1428571
> cor(x[!is.na(x)&!is.na(y)],y[!is.na(x)&!is.na(y)],method="s")
[1] -0.4

These two results should be the same.

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