Properties of pmatch function
问题 I don't understand the behavior of the built-in function pmatch (partial string matching). The description provides the following example: pmatch("m", c("mean", "median", "mode")) # returns NA instead of 1,2,3 but using: pmatch("m", "mean") # returns 1, as I would have expected. Could anybody explain to me this behavior? 回答1: As per the documentation: nomatch : the value to be returned at non-matching or multiply partially matching positions. Note that it is coerced to integer. The nomatch