Re: fillmissing

[Andrew Janke]

On 6/13/20 5:36 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 11:35 PM Juan Pablo Carbajal
> <ajuanpi+dev@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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
>
> BTW, pandas has implemented NA since version 1.0
> https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/missing_data.html

Ha! This is news to me. I guess Octave has joined the family of 
languages that defines a NA. Guess I was wrong about what the Octave 
developers' answer would be here.

Cheers,
Andrew