?any Not really a reproducible answer, but I think you're looking for
apply(tes[,sam],1,function(x)any(is.na(x))) - Phil Spector Statistical Computing Facility Department of Statistics UC Berkeley spec...@stat.berkeley.edu On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, moleps wrote:
Dear R?ers.. In this mock dataset how can I generate a logical variable based on whether just tes or tes3 are NA in each row?? test<-sample(c("A",NA,"B"),100,replace=T) test2<-sample(c("A",NA,"B"),100,replace=T) test3<-sample(c("A",NA,"B"),100,replace=T) tes<-cbind(test,test2,test3) sam<-c("test","test3") apply(subset(tes,select=sam),1,FUN=function(x) is.na(x)) However this just tests whether each variable is missing or not per row. I?d like an -or- function in here that would provide one true/false per row based on whether test or tes3 are NA. I guess it would be easy to do it by subsetting in the example but I figure there is a more elegant way of doing it when -sam- contains 50 variables... //M [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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