The problem is that if x is either NA or NaN then x != 0 is NA (and not FALSE
or TRUE) and the function is.nan tests for a NaN but not for NA, i.e.
is.nan(NA) returns FALSE.
You can do something like:
mat_zeroless[!is.na(mat) & mat != 0] <- mat[!is.na(mat) & mat != 0]
--- On Thu, 14/8/08, rcoder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: rcoder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [R] missing TRUE/FALSE error in conditional construct
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Received: Thursday, 14 August, 2008, 8:16 AM
> Hi everyone,
>
> I posted something similar to this in reply to another
> post, but there seems
> to be a problem getting it onto the board, so I'm
> starting a new post.
>
> I am trying to use conditional formatting to select
> non-zero and non-NaN
> values from a matrix and pass them into another matrix. The
> problem is that
> I keep encountering an error message indicating the
> ":missing value where
> TRUE/FALSE needed "
>
> My code is as follows:
>
> ##Code Start
> mat_zeroless<-matrix(NA,5000,2000) #generating holding
> matrix
>
> ##Assume source matrix containing combination of values,
> NaNs and zeros##
> for (j in 1:5000)
> {
> for (k in 1:2000)
> {
> if(mat[j,k]!=0 & !is.NaN(mat[j,k]))
> {mat_zeroless[j,k]<-mat[j,k]}
> }
> }
> ##Code End
>
> Error in if (mat[j,k] !=0 & !is.NaN(mat[j,k])) {
> :missing value where
> TRUE/FALSE needed
>
> I'm not sure how to resolve this.
>
> rcoder
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