On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:51 AM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 30, 2011, at 16:05 , Christopher Desjardins wrote:
>
> >>
> >> dat0 <- read.table('tim1.dat', na = -999)
> >>
> >
> > Ah ... yes. I knew that but clearly didn't at the time of my question or
> > script writing.
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
>
> Depending on where your data came from, you could get caught by the fact
> that the above is really ...na.strings="-999"... and that is not going to
> work if the actual code is (say) -999.00.
>
> Another straightforward option is dat0[dat0 == -999] <- NA
>
>
Thanks Peter. That way does work well too and it does what I need.
Chris
>
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