Statistics function incorrectly computing median

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-Jan-2008, Ben Abbott wrote:

| I took another look and found a method that is more consistent with  
| the original algorithm. The original calculates the CDF from left to  
| right.  So I added an equivalent calculation form right to left, and  
| averaged the two results.
| 
| I expect the result will be the same calculated by GNU's R.

Why not look at the R code for this function and see what it is doing?

jwe