Not sure exactly what you are trying to do since you did not provide
commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. Let me take a
guess in that you also have to test for NAs:
> x <- sample(c("N", "A", "B", NA), 20, TRUE)
> x
[1] "A" "A" "B" NA "N" NA NA "B" "B" "N" "N" "N" "B" "A" NA "A"
"B" NA "A" NA
> x != "N"
[1] TRUE TRUE TRUE NA FALSE NA NA TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE
FALSE TRUE TRUE NA TRUE TRUE NA
[19] TRUE NA
> x[x != "N"]
[1] "A" "A" "B" NA NA NA "B" "B" "B" "A" NA "A" "B" NA "A" NA
> (!is.na(x)) & (x != "N")
[1] TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE
FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE
[19] TRUE FALSE
> x[(!is.na(x)) & (x != "N")]
[1] "A" "A" "B" "B" "B" "B" "A" "A" "B" "A"
>
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Laura Bonnett
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a data frame which has columns comprised mainly of "NA"s. I know
> there are functions na.pass and na.omit etc which can be used in these
> situations however I can't them to work in this case. I have a function
> which returns the data according to some rule i.e. removal of N in this
> code:
>
> nep <- function(data)
> {
> dummy <- rep(0,378)
> for(i in 1:378){
> if(is.na(data$with.Wcode)[i])
> data$with.Wcode[i] <- "O"
> }
> for(i in 1:378){
> if(data$with.Wcode[i]=="N")
> dummy[i] <- i
> }
> return(data[-dummy,])
> }
>
> However, I really don't want to replace the NAs with "O". I'd just like to
> gloss over them. I can't just delete them because the structure of the data
> frame needs to be maintained. Can anyone suggest how I can write in a line
> or two to ignore the NAs instead of replacing them? I've tried this code
> but it doesn't work!
>
> nep <- function(data)
> {
> dummy <- rep(0,378)
> for(i in 1:378){
> na.pass(data$with.Wcode[i])
> if(data$with.Wcode[i]=="N")
> dummy[i] <- i
> }
> return(data[-dummy,])
> }
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Laura
>
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