JPM Miao: Why can't R understand if(num!=NA)?
Peter Dalgaard: Because comparison with an unknown value yields an unknown result.
David Winsemius: Anything else would violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics. We cannot have comparisons reducing entropy, now can we? Uncertainty cannot run uphill.
-- JPM Miao, Peter Dalgaard, and David Winsemius (on why is.na() is needed)
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