See na.locf in the zoo package.  It does exactly that.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:07 PM, ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a vector where an integer is followed by a randomly varying number of 
> NA elements. I want to replace the NA's with the preceding integer. Let me 
> explain with a simple example :
> avec<- c(1,NA,NA,5,NA,3,4,NA,NA,NA,NA,9,NA,0,NA,NA)
> I want to get the following vector from a :
> bvec<-c(1,1,1,5,5,3,4,4,4,4,4,9,9,0,0,0)
>
> How can I do this with R? Will appreciate all the help that I can get.
> Thanking you,
> Ravi
>
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