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Re: NA and NaN
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miguel manese |
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Re: NA and NaN |
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Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:47:23 +0800 |
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Francesco Potorti` <address@hidden> wrote:
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> However, in light of Søren's observation, would it preferable to use NA
> instad of NaN for missing values? What about octave-forge packages
> "statistics" and "nan"? What about Matlab compatibility?
In both Octave and R, NA means "Not Available" used for missing values
(help isna). While NaN is "Not a number" like 0 / 0.
Regards
M. Manese