Ali - If all you care about is if there are any missing values (not how many or where they are), I think it would be a bit faster to use
if(any(is.na(x))){...} - Phil Spector Statistical Computing Facility Department of Statistics UC Berkeley spec...@stat.berkeley.edu On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Ali Tofigh wrote:
What is the best way to detect whether or not a (potentially large) matrix contains missing values (NAs) or not? I use if (sum(is.na(x)) > 0) {...} are there more efficient ways? /Ali ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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