On 13-05-2012, at 15:08, Jonsson wrote: > Dear All, > > I am trying to replace a value of 528.8933 to -9999 in my file > > t<- file("C:\\Users\\Amin\\Desktop\\1999n_Resample11.img", "rb") > e=readBin(t, double(), size=4,n=720*360, signed=TRUE) > e[e != -9999] <- e[e != -9999]*0.0099 + 477.65 -273.15 > > This code given above would read a binary file . Then It would do some > clculations to e. That worked well. I opend the file again in order to > look at the results and I found weird numbers ( 528.8933). > > I then used this line >e[e == 528.8933] <- -9999 to replace > the value of 528.8933 by -9999. I got no errors but when I looked again at > the values, I found them as they were(528.8933 is still there) > any idea on how to replace a value by another value?Thanks in advance >
Please read the R FAQ section 7.31 "Why doesn't R think these numbers are equal?" http://cran.r-project.org/faqs.html http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html Berend ______________________________________________ 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.