Re: Basic calculation mistakes (e.g. mean/median)

[Brandon Invergo]

Andreas Sommer writes:

> $ seq 1 3 | datamash -H mean 1 median 1
> mean(1)       median(1)
> 2.5   2.5
>
> $ seq 1 3 | datamash -R 5 -H mean 1 median 1
> mean(1)       median(1)
> 2.50000       2.50000
>
> ---
>
> $ seq 1 4 | datamash -H -R 2 mean 1 median 1
> mean(1)       median(1)
> 3.00  3.00
>
> Until that gets fixed, it means I can't trust the tool :(

All of those results are correct.  The -H option is synonymous with
--header-in and --header-out, so the first row (containing the value 1)
is being treated as a header row not a data row.

-- 
-brandon