Re: [Gretl-devel] "NA" revisited
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 25.07.2018 um 01:28 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> One point I'd forgotten is that comparable software doesn't
> support "NA * 0 = 0". Not that we want to slavishly follow R, but
> NA * 0 = NA there.
(In Stata too, I now see.)
I think the main point is that this NA * 0 isn't really marketed
or mentioned in the gretl documentation, is it?
It is mentioned in section 4.6 of the User's Guide, but no, it's not
exactly "marketed".
Apart from that, what's the status of stuff like table 16.1 in
the
guide? It mentions "NA" for matrices instead of NaN, has this been
wrong all along?
What's shown in Table 16.1 is correct: the NAs therein are the
scalar return values from functions that take a matrix as argument
(e.g. determinant), in case the matrix is empty.
Allin