Re: Single/Double precision NA values

[Olaf Till]

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.