Behavior of summing !is.na() results
问题 Why does the first line return TRUE, and the third line returns 1? I would expect both lines to return 1. What is the exact meaning of those extra two parentheses in the third line? !is.na(5) + !is.na(NA) # TRUE (!is.na(5)) + (!is.na(NA)) # 1 edit: should check these multiple times. The original problem was with !is.na() , thought it replicated for is.na() . But it didn't :) 回答1: ! has a weird, counter-intuitive precedence in R. Your first code is equivalent to !(is.na(5) + !is.na(NA)) That