[R] What's wrong with MEAN?

[Jim Holtman]

you need to provide a vector:

mean(c(16,18))

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On May 22, 2012, at 5:10, Vincy Pyne <vincy_pyne at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> 
> Dear R helpers,
> 
> I have recently installed R version 2.15.0
> 
> I just wanted to calculate 
> 
> mean(16, 18)
> 
> Surprisingly I got answer as 
> 
>> mean(16, 18)
> [1] 16
> 
> 
>> mean(18, 16)
> 
> [1] 18
> 
>> mean(14, 11, 17, 9, 5, 18)
> [1] 14
> 
> 
> So instead of calculating simple Arithmetic average, mean command is generating first element as average. I restarted the machine, changed the machine, but still the reply is same. I have been using this mean function ever since I strated learning R, but this has never happened.
> 
> Kindly guide
> 
> Vincy
> 
> 
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