for DataArrays documentation see DataFrames

[deszoeke]

There is a bit more information on DataArrays on the DataFrames documentation site.
http://dataframesjl.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

Since new users like me don't automatically know that DataArrays came from DataFrames, the DataArrays documentation would benefit from a link to the DataFrames documentation.

Many places (?mean and ?std) I have seen

For applications requiring the handling of missing data, the DataArray package is recommended.

Yet nowhere have I found documentation of methods for evaluating missing-data-ignoring statistical and simple arithmetic functions (e.g. mean(), std(), sum()) using DataArrays.

From reading Base.mean code, I am experimenting with skipna=true. This seems to be a very stealthy (undocumented) method.

[johnmyleswhite]

We're chronically short-staffed on people who can put in time to do this sort of work, so a pull request with improved documentation would be very helpful.

[micahjsmith]

@johnmyleswhite is this still open for contribution? Not much documentation to be found. I would find the in-source docstrings very helpful.

[johnmyleswhite]

No, please contribute documentation to NullableArrays.

[nalimilan]

Especially JuliaStats/NullableArrays.jl#160.

[ararslan]

The package now includes docstrings and documentation generated via Documenter. See the README for links to the stable and latest docs.