[R] NA in table with integer types

[Paul Rathouz]

Hi -- I am having the following problem with table() when applied to
vectors of type (mode) integer.  When I use the table() command, I can
*only obtain an entry in the table for NA values by using exclude=NULL*.
Just issuing exclude=NaN will not do it.  See below, where x is double at
first, and then coerced to integer and notice the difference.  Is this a
bug or is there something that I do not understand about the integer data
type?  That is, is there some other value besides NA and NaN that "missing
integers" take? Thanks -- pr

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> x <- c(1,2,3,3,NA)
> is.double(x)
[1] TRUE
> table(x,exclude=NA)
x
1 2 3
1 1 2
> table(x,exclude=NaN)
x
   1    2    3 <NA>
   1    1    2    1
> table(x,exclude=NULL)
x
   1    2    3 <NA>
   1    1    2    1
>
> x <- as.integer(x)
> x
[1]  1  2  3  3 NA
> is.na(x)
[1] FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE  TRUE
> is.integer(x)
[1] TRUE
> table(x,exclude=NA)
x
1 2 3
1 1 2
> table(x,exclude=NaN)
x
1 2 3
1 1 2
> table(x,exclude=NULL)
x
   1    2    3 <NA>
   1    1    2    1
>
> R.version
         _
platform powerpc-apple-darwin6.8
arch     powerpc
os       darwin6.8
system   powerpc, darwin6.8
status
major    2
minor    0.1
year     2004
month    11
day      15
language R
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