Hi Keld you should read ?sum.
sum(c(1,2,NA), na.rm=TRUE) Cheers Andrew On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 08:29:34AM +0200, Keld J?rn Simonsen wrote: > Hi > > I would like to sum a number of time series, some of them having NA's > > Standard action is here that if I sum a value with a NA, then the result > is NA. I would like it to just keep the value. > > I then try to: > > a = NA; if (a == NA) { a = 0} > > just to try it out, but it says > > Error in if (a == NA) { : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed > > What is wrong, and can I do it smarter? I looked at na.action but I > don't see how it affects addition of vectors, nor time series. > > Best regards > keld > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Andrew Robinson Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-6410 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~andrewpr http://blogs.mbs.edu/fishing-in-the-bay/ ______________________________________________ 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.