Ok, pls take a look at '?median'. Can you see "However, the default method makes use of 'sort' and 'mean'"? Then let's look at 'median.default'. I do see 'sort'. But where is 'mean'? At first glance I didn't catch the exact point of its algorithm. Why not say more clearly that "make use of partial sorting and calculating mean of middle values".
Maybe I'm too strict. It's not a really bug. Let's stop this thread. From: Kjetil Halvorsen [mailto:kjetilbrinchmannhalvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 11:16 AM To: Zheng, Xin (NIH) [C] Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] R's documentation On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Zheng, Xin (NIH) [C] <zheng...@mail.nih.gov<mailto:zheng...@mail.nih.gov>> wrote: Sometimes I get confused with R's documentation. It seems the documents is not maintained and updated well. Anyone has similar feeling? I don't mean to offend anyone. I hope R would get better and better. But documentation is really one very important factor which could attract people coming or drive people away. ¿Do you have any specific example? Without examples it is difficult to say much. ¿Do you refer to the core part of R, or to contributed packages? My impression is that when some functions are changed, the documentation is generally changed at the same time. And I am sure that is the goal, so if you know a case where it did not happen you should file a bug report. kjetil Xin Zheng [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org<mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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