Message-ID: <20040409164614.9E0AD10478@slim.kubism.ku.dk>
Date: 2004-04-09T18:46:16Z
From: msa@biostat.mgh.harvard.edu
Subject: Incorrect handling of NA's in cor() (PR#6750)
Full_Name: Marek Ancukiewicz
Version: 1.8.1
OS: Linux
Submission from: (NULL) (132.183.12.87)
Function cor() incorrectly handles missing observation with method="spearman":
> x <- c(1,2,3,NA,5,6)
> y <- c(4,NA,2,5,1,3)
> cor(x,y,use="complete.obs",method="s")
[1] -0.1428571
> cor(x[!is.na(x)&!is.na(y)],y[!is.na(x)&!is.na(y)],method="s")
[1] -0.4
These two results should be the same.