Re: [R] Unique in discerning missing values NA

2013-07-05 Thread Pancho Mulongeni
roject.org Subject: Re: [R] Unique in discerning missing values NA Hello, Your data example is difficult to read into an R session. Next time, post the output of ?dput. Like this: dput(menPatients[1:40, 1]) # post the output of this The help page for unique says that "Missing values are re

Re: [R] Unique in discerning missing values NA

2013-07-05 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, Your data example is difficult to read into an R session. Next time, post the output of ?dput. Like this: dput(menPatients[1:40, 1]) # post the output of this The help page for unique says that "Missing values are regarded as equal" so you should expect one NA to still be present i

Re: [R] Unique in discerning missing values NA

2013-07-05 Thread Pascal Oettli
Hi, testUnique <- unique(testData[!is.na(testData)]) or testUnique <- unique(na.omit(testData)) And probably some other solutions. Regards, Pascal 2013/7/5 Pancho Mulongeni > Hi, > I am trying to remove duplicate Patient numbers in a clinical record, I > used unique > menPatients[1:40,1] >

[R] Unique in discerning missing values NA

2013-07-05 Thread Pancho Mulongeni
Hi, I am trying to remove duplicate Patient numbers in a clinical record, I used unique menPatients[1:40,1] [1] abr1160(C)/001 ABR1363(A)/001 ABR1363(A)/001 ABR1363(A)/001 abr1772(B)/001 [6] AFR0003/001AFR0003/001afr0290(C)/001 afr1861(B)/001 Aga0007/001 [11] AGA1548(A)/001 AGA1548(A)