Re: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame

2009-08-18 Thread John Kane
Clearly the poor user needs to export something to one of those archaic stats systems like SAS or SPSS :) --- On Tue, 8/18/09, Bert Gunter wrote: > From: Bert Gunter > Subject: RE: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame > To: "'Steve Lianoglou'" , &

Re: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame

2009-08-18 Thread Bert Gunter
-Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Steve Lianoglou Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 7:25 AM To: John Kane Cc: r-help@r-project.org; Steve Murray Subject: Re: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame

Re: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame

2009-08-18 Thread John Kane
OOPs clumsy cut and paste. :( --- On Tue, 8/18/09, Uwe Ligges wrote: > From: Uwe Ligges > Subject: Re: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame > To: "John Kane" > Cc: r-help@r-project.org, "Steve Murray" > Received: Tuesday, August 18, 200

Re: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame

2009-08-18 Thread Steve Lianoglou
;-999 R> a [1] 1 2 3 NA NA 10 20 NA NA R> a[is.na(a)] <-999 R> a [1] 1 2 3 999 999 10 20 999 999 Hope that helps, -steve --- On Mon, 8/17/09, Steve Murray wrote: From: Steve Murray Subject: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame To: r-help@r-project.or

Re: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame

2009-08-18 Thread Uwe Ligges
John Kane wrote: Perhaps testdata$onecolumn[testdata$onecolumn==NA] <- Well, with is.na() there is a much better chance to make it work Uwe Ligges --- On Mon, 8/17/09, Steve Murray wrote: From: Steve Murray Subject: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame To

Re: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame

2009-08-18 Thread John Kane
Perhaps testdata$onecolumn[testdata$onecolumn==NA] <- --- On Mon, 8/17/09, Steve Murray wrote: > From: Steve Murray > Subject: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame > To: r-help@r-project.org > Received: Monday, August 17, 2009, 11:41 AM > > Dear al

Re: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame

2009-08-18 Thread jim holtman
testdata[is.na(testdata$onecolumn)] <- - On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Steve Murray wrote: > > Dear all, > > I'm trying to replace NA values with - in one column of a data frame. > I've tried using is.na and the testdata[testdata$onecolumn==NA] <- > approach, but whilst neither

[R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame

2009-08-18 Thread Steve Murray
Dear all, I'm trying to replace NA values with - in one column of a data frame. I've tried using is.na and the testdata[testdata$onecolumn==NA] <- approach, but whilst neither generate errors, neither result in -s appearing - the NAs remain there! I'd be grateful for any advice o