[R] Problem with mean()

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 21/07/2018 12:39 PM, John Kane via R-help wrote:
> Either I am doing something very stupid or my R installation has a glitch. What am I missing?
> dd1  <- 50
> dd2  <- 54
> 
> mean(dd1, dd2)
> [1] 50  # wrong

Read the help page ?mean.  You are specifying the parameters x and trim.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> (dd1 + dd2)/2
> [1] 52 # correct
> 
> aa  <- c(48, 52, 56, 54, 52)
> 
> mean(aa)
> [1] 52.4 # correct
> 
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