Thank you Prof Ripley for your solutions, I'll get by with these. Lauri
2007/12/2, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Lauri Nikkinen wrote: > > > #Dear R-users, > > #I have a data.frame like this: > > > > y1 <- rnorm(10) + 6.8 > > y2 <- rnorm(10) + (1:10*1.7 + 1) > > y3 <- rnorm(10) + (1:10*6.7 + 3.7) > > y <- c(y1,y2,y3) > > x <- rep(1:3,10) > > f <- gl(2,15, labels=paste("lev", 1:2, sep="")) > > g <- seq(as.Date("2000/1/1"), by="day", length=30) > > DF <- data.frame(x=x,y=y, f=f, g=g) > > DF$g[DF$x == 1] <- NA > > DF$x[3:6] <- NA > > DF$wdays <- weekdays(DF$g) > > > > DF > > > > #Frequences > > g <- lapply(DF, function(x) as.data.frame(table(format(x)))) > > g > > > > #NA:s are now part of factor levels. How to recode NA:s into e.g. "missing"? > > Not so: > > > sapply(DF, class) > x y f g wdays > "integer" "numeric" "factor" "Date" "character" > > and DF$f does not have any NA levels. > > The place you may think you have got NAs is in format(wdays): > they are not NA nor "NA" but "NA ". I am not sure what exactly you > want (NA is not appearing in the tables: see the 'exclude' argument), > but perhaps > > lapply(DF, function(x) { > if(is.character(x)) x[is.na(x)] <- "missing" > as.data.frame(table(format(x))) > }) > > or > > lapply(DF, function(x) { > z <- table(format(x)) > names(z)[grep("^NA", names(z))] <- "missing" > as.data.frame(z) > }) > > or > > lapply(DF, function(x) { > z <- table(x, exclude=character(0)) > names(z)[is.na(names(z))] <- "missing" > as.data.frame(z) > }) > > ? > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.