Petr and Bill, Thanks for your replies.
I have gone with Petr use of na.locf(), but expect I can use Bill's full function in the near future. Chris -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Vector-replace-0-elements-without-using-a-loop-tp2966191p2968909.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.