Re: [R] missing values in csv file

2016-02-17 Thread William Dunlap via R-help
You can add the argument na.print=" " to print() to make the missing values print as " " instead of as NA. Some, but not all print methods support this. E.g., > print(c(1,2,NA,4,5,NA), na.print="-") [1] 1 2 - 4 5 - > print(matrix(c(1,2,NA,4,5,NA),2), na.print="-") [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,]

Re: [R] missing values in csv file

2016-02-17 Thread S Ellison
> Is it possible to get object where missing values aren't replaced with NAs? Not with read.table, if they are really missing. But you can replace them later - see below - and if they are marked you can change what read.table considers to be 'missing'. > Is it possible to replace NAs with empty

Re: [R] missing values in csv file

2016-02-17 Thread Michael Dewey
Assuming it is a character variable test <- c("a", NA, "b") > test [1] "a" NA "b" > test[is.na(test)] <- " " > test [1] "a" " " "b" but if it is numeric this as, as others have said, almost certainly not what you really wanted to do On 17/02/2016 10:04, Jan Kacaba wrote: In my original

Re: [R] missing values in csv file

2016-02-17 Thread PIKAL Petr
ruary 17, 2016 2:01 PM > To: Jan Kacaba > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] missing values in csv file > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Jan Kacaba <jan.kac...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > In my original data a csv file I have missing values. If I us

Re: [R] missing values in csv file

2016-02-17 Thread Adrian Dușa
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Jan Kacaba wrote: > In my original data a csv file I have missing values. If I use read.table > the missing values are replaced by NAs. > That is the normal way of dealing with missing values, in R. Is it possible to get object where