Re: fillmissing

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

> 2) I think "no": recently, Octave has been focused on Matlab
> compatibility, and Matlab does not define a NA value. Some other
> programming languages do – in that case, NA, is a distict subset of the
> NaN values defined by IEEE 754. But that is language-specific, and
> neither IEEE 754 itself nor Matlab define NA, so I'm guessing Octave
> would not be interested in implementing that.

I am not sure I understand the answer but Octave has NA values, and
NaN values,  since long. Check
> NA(3,2)
ans =

    NA    NA
    NA    NA
    NA    NA

and the logic of NA values is consistent with missing data
https://octave.org/doc/interpreter/Missing-Data.html#Missing-Data