Where the <expletive deleted> did you get the argument ``na.nr''?
Perhaps you need new reading glasses.
Anyhow, unless there's something else you're not telling us,
apply(nafam,2,sum,na.rm=TRUE)
should work just fine.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On 17/06/2009, at 1:56 PM, Germán Bonilla wrote:
Hi all,
I can't compute the sum by columns to a matrix using apply() when
I've got
missing values (either 0 or NA)...
I've got this matrix:
nafam
Micro Flavo Helio Pseud Rhodo Bdello Chloro Syntro Verruco
Prochloro
SAR11
I 1 1 1 NA NA 1 3 NA
1 6
1
VII NA 1 2 1 NA 2 16 1
NA 12
35
XI NA NA NA NA 1 NA 2 NA
1 17
94
and want to count the total frequencies by column, but I keep
getting the
same output
apply(nafam,2,sum,na.nr=T)
Micro Flavo Helio Pseud Rhodo Bdello Chloro
Syntro
NA NA NA NA NA NA 22
NA
Verruco Prochloro SAR11
NA 36 131
or this output with this other way:
apply(nafam,2,sum,na.last=NA)
Micro Flavo Helio Pseud Rhodo Bdello Chloro
Syntro
NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
NA
Verruco Prochloro SAR11
NA NA NA
I tried to change NA's to "0" and built this matrix:
nafam[is.na(nafam)] <- 0
nafam
Micro Flavo Helio Pseud Rhodo Bdello Chloro Syntro Verruco
Prochloro
SAR11
I 1 1 1 0 0 1 3 0
1 6
1
VII 0 1 2 1 0 2 16 1
0 12
35
XI 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0
1 17
94
and then tried to sum again everything but the zeroes:
apply(tfam>0,2,sum)
Micro Flavo Helio Pseud Rhodo Bdello Chloro
Syntro
1 2 2 1 1 2
3 1
Verruco Prochloro SAR11
2 3 3
but the sums doesn't add correctly!!! (see Helio = 2 when it should
be 3)
I do need to exclude the zeroes because I'm using the output fro
plotting a
cumulative frequency distribution.
Any idea of why is this happening?
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