tom wright wrote:
> Can someone please explain why this works: 
> 
> 
>>>d<-c(0,2,3,2,0,3,4,0,0,0,0,0)
>>>d.mat<-matrix(data=d,nrow=4,ncol=3,byrow=TRUE)
>>>for(i in 1:length(d.mat[1,])){
>>
>>+ d.mat[,i][d.mat[,i]==0]<-mean(d.mat[,i][d.mat[,i]>0])
>>+ }
> 
> 
> Whereas: 
> 
> 
>>d<-c(0,2,3,2,0,3,4,0,0,0,0,0)
>>d.mat<-matrix(data=d,nrow=4,ncol=3,byrow=TRUE)
>>d.mat[d.mat==0]<-NA
>>for(i in 1:length(d.mat[1,])){
> 
> + d.mat[,i][d.mat[,i]==NA]<-mean(d.mat[,i],na.rm=TRUE)
> + }
> dosnt
> 
> Thanks
> Tom
> 

d.mat[,i] == NA returns NA. You want ?is.na to test for missing values.

--sundar

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