[R] strange behaviour of median

[Karl Ove Hufthammer]

On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:32:15 +0100 Petr PIKAL <petr.pikal at precheza.cz> 
wrote:
> > median(df1)
> [1]  6.5 10.5
> 
> Rather weird, AFAIK there shall not be an issue with data frame at least I 
> did not find any in help page.

It's not exactly a bug, since 'median' is not documented to work on data 
frames (use 'sapply' or 'apply' for that), but it's certainly surprising 
and confusing behaviour. I think 'median' should either be changed to 
work on data frames, or to produce a warning when used on data frames.

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Karl Ove Hufthammer