Re: [R] excluding NAs in data frame without deleting rows

2009-05-29 Thread Luc Villandre
Wade Wall wrote: Hi all, I have a binary matrix with NAs included. Each row and column includes at least one NA, so I don't want to omit them. Is there a way to sum across rows and columns, ignoring the NAs but not deleting the row or column? If not, I suppose I can write a loop function, but

Re: [R] excluding NAs in data frame without deleting rows

2009-05-29 Thread Adrián Cortés
use: sum(x,na.rm=T) like this: my.row.sums <- apply(my.matrix,1,sum,na.rm=T) If you want to do across columns then use 2 instead of 1. Look at ?apply and ?sum. Adrian On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Wade Wall wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a binary matrix with NAs included. Each row and col

[R] excluding NAs in data frame without deleting rows

2009-05-29 Thread Wade Wall
Hi all, I have a binary matrix with NAs included. Each row and column includes at least one NA, so I don't want to omit them. Is there a way to sum across rows and columns, ignoring the NAs but not deleting the row or column? If not, I suppose I can write a loop function, but I have learned tha