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Re: Single/Double precision NA values
From: |
Olaf Till |
Subject: |
Re: Single/Double precision NA values |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:40:29 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 01:49:27PM +0200, David Bateman wrote:
> Olaf Till wrote:
> > Just an issue: For some statistical functionality, I have used R from
> > Octave over bidirectional pipes. Floating point data was sent to and
> > from R over the pipes. NaN or NA values did not occur, but probably
> > might be an issue in such cases.
> >
> In such a case if you have popened the R process from Octave or
> visa-versa, the numerical values are passed in an ascii form and so the
> NA value will be passed as a string and so shouldn't be an issue.
Indeed the values were passed as strings. It has escaped me now, sorry.