Try this:

#DF <- read.table(...)
lapply(DF, function(col)col[!is.na(col)])

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Amelia Livington
<amelia_living...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear R helpers
>
> Suppose e.g. I have a csv file having three variables defined and each of 
> these variables have data items of say 40, 50, 45 length. When I open this 
> csv file in 'R', I get 10 trailing 'NA's under first column and 5 'NA' s in 
> case of 3rd column.
>
> How do I get rid of these NA's s.t. when I read the first column, there 
> should be only 40 data items, 2nd column should have only 50 data items and 
> last one should have 45 data items as in the original csv file.
>
> Thanking in advance
>
> Amelia
>
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