Can someone point me to the proper place in the documentation or on the
Wiki where I can learn how to get R to stop interpreting the string "NA"
as something special? I have a table in a database which contains
(among other things) country codes and continent codes. The standard
set of two-letter codes includes "NA" to denote "North America". I
learned of the "na.strings" parameter for RODBC's "sqlQuery", being able
to shut down this interpretation when data is read in.
However, in the program which uses this data, I (must) have some other
instance where the "NA" gets spontaneously"interpreted as "not
available", shows up in vectors and lists as "<NA>", and breaks
function. I temporarily solved the problem by defining all instances of
"NA" in the database as "NAC". It still would be good to know a
generaly solution. I've seen something mentioned in conjunction with
"options", but I'm not sure what that is about.
Thanks much,
- Jan,
Akamai Technologies,
Cambridge, MA
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