[R] noncommutative addition: NA+NaN != NaN+NA

[Robin Hankin]

Dear Professor Ripley

thank you for your reply.

>
>>  >  NaN +NA
>>  [1] NaN
>>  >  NA + NaN
>>  [1] NA
>>
>>  I thought "+" was commutative by definition.   What's going on?
>
>It is clearly not under your compiler/OS.  We could add a configure test
>for broken systems and fix it in arithmetic.c but it hardly seems
>worthwhile.

[snip]

>  > (Both give NA under linux, so it looks like a version-specific issue).
>
>Linux on that hardware?  It might be a chip issue.


Sorry, that should read "Both give NA under linux on an i686 system, 
RedHat Linux 2.4.18"

In any event, "+" appears to be associative (which is what I was 
interested in).

best wishes

rksh


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