Re: [R] Help with NaN when 0 divided by 0

essage- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf > Of Jennifer Sabatier > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 7:18 AM > To: David Winsemius > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Help with NaN when 0 divided by 0 > >

Re: [R] Help with NaN when 0 divided by 0

Hi Everyone, Thanks so much for all your suggestions! All of these worked but David's was best suited for my purposes, considering it was something happens sporadically. I don't do expenditure analyses often as I mostly do run of the mill survey analysis, but this will come in handy for the once

Re: [R] Help with NaN when 0 divided by 0

On Jul 31, 2012, at 1:23 PM, Jennifer Sabatier wrote: Hi All, I have some data where I am doing fairly simple calculations, nothing more than adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. I’m running into a problem when I divide one variable by another and when they’re both 0 I get

Re: [R] Help with NaN when 0 divided by 0

Hi, Here are two possible ways to deal with it. Which is better depends on the larger context of your code. There's no right way, just whichever is more convenient. > ifelse(var2 != 0, var1/var2, 0) [1] 0.0 13.9 53.79000 0.0 150.0 350.0 > > newvar <- var1/var2 > newvar[i

Re: [R] Help with NaN when 0 divided by 0

On Jul 31, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Jennifer Sabatier wrote: > Hi All, > > I have some data where I am doing fairly simple calculations, nothing more > than adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. > > I’m running into a problem when I divide one variable by another and when > they’re both 0 I

[R] Help with NaN when 0 divided by 0

Hi All, I have some data where I am doing fairly simple calculations, nothing more than adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. I’m running into a problem when I divide one variable by another and when they’re both 0 I get NaN. I realize that if you divide a non-zero by 0 then you get