Re: [R] data.frame with NA

2013-03-20 Thread David Winsemius


On Mar 19, 2013, at 8:18 AM, David L Carlson wrote:


Try this instead:

Foglio1[,2:ncol(Foglio1)] <- na.locf(Foglio1[, 
2:ncol(Foglio1)],fromLast=T)

str(Foglio1)

'data.frame':   1489 obs. of  15 variables:
$ Date: Date, format: "2001-08-17" "2001-08-20" ...
$ a   : num  202 201 202 201 202 ...
$ b   : num  231 230 230 230 232 ...
$ c   : num  177 179 181 180 182 ...
$ d   : num  277 277 276 276 275 ...
$ e   : num  2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 ...
$ f   : num  275 277 279 279 279 ...
$ g   : num  91.7 90.7 90.8 91.1 91 ...
$ h   : num  11446 11258 11280 11396 11127 ...
$ i   : num  388 389 393 392 393 ...
$ l   : num  93.2 94 92.4 93.4 93.1 ...
$ m   : num  128 127 126 129 130 ...
$ n   : num  103 103 103 103 103 ...
$ o   : num  133 133 133 133 133 ...
$ p   : num  107 107 107 107 107 ...

It appears that na.locf() converts the object to a matrix at some  
point (but
I haven't checked the source code). The first column (the Date  
variable) is
treated as character. As a result, everything gets converted to  
character.
This will skip the first column which does not have any missing  
values.


It happens when the argument gets converted to a zoo coredata object.  
There is only `na.locf.default` that works on zoo objects and no  
`na.locf.data.frame`. The reason there is no warning in help(na.locf)  
is that the author assumed the OP had already read help(zoo) and  
understood the data structures were different than other R objects.


--
David.


-Original Message-
From: Pietro [mailto:freeri...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 6:10 AM
To: dcarl...@tamu.edu; dcarl...@tamu.edu
Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: RE: [R] data.frame with NA

Yes, colClasses is the solution. Thank you very much.
However i found a very strange thing.

If i use:
Foglio1 <- read.xlsx2("mydb.xlsx", 1, colClasses=c("Date",
rep("numeric",14)))

i get numeric dataframe, as you said.

I also get NaN (and not NA).

At this point i use the function:
Foglio1 = na.locf(Foglio1,fromLast=T) and it works perfectly. All NaN
's were replaced with the first numeric value, as expected.

And now the enigma.

After na.locf function, Foglio1 become all CHR again! It seems that
na.locf  convert from num to chr. Even Date is converted in chr.
I'm reading the help of this function but i can't find trace about
the possibility of this conversion.

It seems that i can't get in anyway a numeric dataframe without NA o
NaN!
Ok, i admit that i'm a newbie, but i'm trying every day to gain
confidence with R

Can i ask you the courtesy to use na.locf function to see if also on
your computer this function convert all to CHR?

Thank you



At 21.37 18/03/2013, David L Carlson wrote:
It appears that you MUST use the colClasses= argument with  
read.xlsx2:


Foglio1 <- read.xlsx2("mydb.xlsx", 1, colClasses=c("Date",

rep("numeric",

14)))

However, e and n are converted to NaN not NA so you would need to

convert

those columns (at least, I didn't check for missing values in the

other

columns):


Foglio1$e <- ifelse(is.nan(Foglio1$e), NA, Foglio1$e)
Foglio1$n <- ifelse(is.nan(Foglio1$n), NA, Foglio1$n)
str(Foglio1)

'data.frame':   1489 obs. of  15 variables:
$ Date: Date, format: "2001-08-17" "2001-08-20" ...
$ a   : num  202 201 202 201 202 ...
$ b   : num  231 230 230 230 232 ...
$ c   : num  177 179 181 180 182 ...
$ d   : num  277 277 276 276 275 ...
$ e   : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
$ f   : num  275 277 279 279 279 ...
$ g   : num  91.7 90.7 90.8 91.1 91 ...
$ h   : num  11446 11258 11280 11396 11127 ...
$ i   : num  388 389 393 392 393 ...
$ l   : num  93.2 94 92.4 93.4 93.1 ...
$ m   : num  128 127 126 129 130 ...
$ n   : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
$ o   : num  133 133 133 133 133 ...
$ p   : num  107 107 107 107 107 ...

---
David



-Original Message-
From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
project.org] On Behalf Of David L Carlson
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 3:22 PM
To: 'Pietro'; 'Berend Hasselman'
Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] data.frame with NA

Try this

Open the spreadsheet in Excel. Select all of the data click Copy.

Don't

close Excel.

Open R and type the following command:


Foglio1 <- read.table("clipboard-128", header=TRUE, sep="\t")


Now take a look at the structure of the data.frame


str(Foglio1)

'data.frame':   1489 obs. of  15 variables:
$ Date: Factor w/ 1489 levels "1/10/2002","1/10/2003",..: 1275

1291

1295
1299 1304 1309 1321 1325 1329 1337 ...
$ a   : num  202 201 202 201 202 ...
$ b   : num  231 230 230 230 232 ...
$ c   : num  177 179 181 180 182 ...
$ d   : num  277 277 276 276 275 ...
$ e   : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
$ f   : num  275 277 279 27

Re: [R] data.frame with NA

2013-03-20 Thread Pietro

Thank you David and thank you Petr

At 14.18 19/03/2013, David L Carlson wrote:

Try this instead:

> Foglio1[,2:ncol(Foglio1)] <- na.locf(Foglio1[,2:ncol(Foglio1)],fromLast=T)
> str(Foglio1)
'data.frame':   1489 obs. of  15 variables:
 $ Date: Date, format: "2001-08-17" "2001-08-20" ...
 $ a   : num  202 201 202 201 202 ...
 $ b   : num  231 230 230 230 232 ...
 $ c   : num  177 179 181 180 182 ...
 $ d   : num  277 277 276 276 275 ...
 $ e   : num  2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 ...
 $ f   : num  275 277 279 279 279 ...
 $ g   : num  91.7 90.7 90.8 91.1 91 ...
 $ h   : num  11446 11258 11280 11396 11127 ...
 $ i   : num  388 389 393 392 393 ...
 $ l   : num  93.2 94 92.4 93.4 93.1 ...
 $ m   : num  128 127 126 129 130 ...
 $ n   : num  103 103 103 103 103 ...
 $ o   : num  133 133 133 133 133 ...
 $ p   : num  107 107 107 107 107 ...

It appears that na.locf() converts the object to a matrix at some point (but
I haven't checked the source code). The first column (the Date variable) is
treated as character. As a result, everything gets converted to character.
This will skip the first column which does not have any missing values.

--
David L Carlson
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4352


> -Original Message-
> From: Pietro [mailto:freeri...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 6:10 AM
> To: dcarl...@tamu.edu; dcarl...@tamu.edu
> Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: RE: [R] data.frame with NA
>
> Yes, colClasses is the solution. Thank you very much.
> However i found a very strange thing.
>
> If i use:
> Foglio1 <- read.xlsx2("mydb.xlsx", 1, colClasses=c("Date",
> rep("numeric",14)))
>
> i get numeric dataframe, as you said.
>
> I also get NaN (and not NA).
>
> At this point i use the function:
> Foglio1 = na.locf(Foglio1,fromLast=T) and it works perfectly. All NaN
> 's were replaced with the first numeric value, as expected.
>
> And now the enigma.
>
> After na.locf function, Foglio1 become all CHR again! It seems that
> na.locf  convert from num to chr. Even Date is converted in chr.
> I'm reading the help of this function but i can't find trace about
> the possibility of this conversion.
>
> It seems that i can't get in anyway a numeric dataframe without NA o
> NaN!
> Ok, i admit that i'm a newbie, but i'm trying every day to gain
> confidence with R
>
> Can i ask you the courtesy to use na.locf function to see if also on
> your computer this function convert all to CHR?
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
> At 21.37 18/03/2013, David L Carlson wrote:
> >It appears that you MUST use the colClasses= argument with read.xlsx2:
> >
> >Foglio1 <- read.xlsx2("mydb.xlsx", 1, colClasses=c("Date",
> rep("numeric",
> >14)))
> >
> >However, e and n are converted to NaN not NA so you would need to
> convert
> >those columns (at least, I didn't check for missing values in the
> other
> >columns):
> >
> > > Foglio1$e <- ifelse(is.nan(Foglio1$e), NA, Foglio1$e)
> > > Foglio1$n <- ifelse(is.nan(Foglio1$n), NA, Foglio1$n)
> > > str(Foglio1)
> >'data.frame':   1489 obs. of  15 variables:
> >  $ Date: Date, format: "2001-08-17" "2001-08-20" ...
> >  $ a   : num  202 201 202 201 202 ...
> >  $ b   : num  231 230 230 230 232 ...
> >  $ c   : num  177 179 181 180 182 ...
> >  $ d   : num  277 277 276 276 275 ...
> >  $ e   : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
> >  $ f   : num  275 277 279 279 279 ...
> >  $ g   : num  91.7 90.7 90.8 91.1 91 ...
> >  $ h   : num  11446 11258 11280 11396 11127 ...
> >  $ i   : num  388 389 393 392 393 ...
> >  $ l   : num  93.2 94 92.4 93.4 93.1 ...
> >  $ m   : num  128 127 126 129 130 ...
> >  $ n   : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
> >  $ o   : num  133 133 133 133 133 ...
> >  $ p   : num  107 107 107 107 107 ...
> >
> >---
> >David
> >
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
> > > project.org] On Behalf Of David L Carlson
> > > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 3:22 PM
> > > To: 'Pietro'; 'Berend Hasselman'
> > > Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch
> > > Subject: Re: [R] data.frame with NA
> > >
> > > Try this
> > >
> > > Open the spreadsheet in Excel. Select all of the data click Copy.
> Don't
> > > close Excel.
> > >
> > > Open R and type

Re: [R] data.frame with NA

2013-03-19 Thread PIKAL Petr
Hi

> -Original Message-
> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Pietro
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 12:10 PM
> To: dcarl...@tamu.edu; dcarl...@tamu.edu
> Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] data.frame with NA
> 
> Yes, colClasses is the solution. Thank you very much.
> However i found a very strange thing.
> 
> If i use:
> Foglio1 <- read.xlsx2("mydb.xlsx", 1, colClasses=c("Date",
> rep("numeric",14)))
> 
> i get numeric dataframe, as you said.
> 
> I also get NaN (and not NA).
> 
> At this point i use the function:
> Foglio1 = na.locf(Foglio1,fromLast=T) and it works perfectly. All NaN
> 's were replaced with the first numeric value, as expected.
> 
> And now the enigma.
> 
> After na.locf function, Foglio1 become all CHR again! It seems that
> na.locf  convert from num to chr. Even Date is converted in chr.
> I'm reading the help of this function but i can't find trace about the
> possibility of this conversion.

I did try na.locf on some data frame (which I did not ever tested) and it stays 
numeric when the data frame is numeric. However with some nonumeric column it 
changes all values to character.

To prevent this behaviour you can use na.locf column wise

for (i in 1:15) Foglio1[,i]<-na.locf(Foglio1[,i])

Regards
Petr

> 
> It seems that i can't get in anyway a numeric dataframe without NA o
> NaN!
> Ok, i admit that i'm a newbie, but i'm trying every day to gain
> confidence with R
> 
> Can i ask you the courtesy to use na.locf function to see if also on
> your computer this function convert all to CHR?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> 
> 
> At 21.37 18/03/2013, David L Carlson wrote:
> >It appears that you MUST use the colClasses= argument with read.xlsx2:
> >
> >Foglio1 <- read.xlsx2("mydb.xlsx", 1, colClasses=c("Date",
> >rep("numeric",
> >14)))
> >
> >However, e and n are converted to NaN not NA so you would need to
> >convert those columns (at least, I didn't check for missing values in
> >the other
> >columns):
> >
> > > Foglio1$e <- ifelse(is.nan(Foglio1$e), NA, Foglio1$e) Foglio1$n <-
> > > ifelse(is.nan(Foglio1$n), NA, Foglio1$n)
> > > str(Foglio1)
> >'data.frame':   1489 obs. of  15 variables:
> >  $ Date: Date, format: "2001-08-17" "2001-08-20" ...
> >  $ a   : num  202 201 202 201 202 ...
> >  $ b   : num  231 230 230 230 232 ...
> >  $ c   : num  177 179 181 180 182 ...
> >  $ d   : num  277 277 276 276 275 ...
> >  $ e   : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
> >  $ f   : num  275 277 279 279 279 ...
> >  $ g   : num  91.7 90.7 90.8 91.1 91 ...
> >  $ h   : num  11446 11258 11280 11396 11127 ...
> >  $ i   : num  388 389 393 392 393 ...
> >  $ l   : num  93.2 94 92.4 93.4 93.1 ...
> >  $ m   : num  128 127 126 129 130 ...
> >  $ n   : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
> >  $ o   : num  133 133 133 133 133 ...
> >  $ p   : num  107 107 107 107 107 ...
> >
> >---
> >David
> >
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
> > > project.org] On Behalf Of David L Carlson
> > > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 3:22 PM
> > > To: 'Pietro'; 'Berend Hasselman'
> > > Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch
> > > Subject: Re: [R] data.frame with NA
> > >
> > > Try this
> > >
> > > Open the spreadsheet in Excel. Select all of the data click Copy.
> > > Don't close Excel.
> > >
> > > Open R and type the following command:
> > >
> > > > Foglio1 <- read.table("clipboard-128", header=TRUE, sep="\t")
> > >
> > > Now take a look at the structure of the data.frame
> > >
> > > > str(Foglio1)
> > > 'data.frame':   1489 obs. of  15 variables:
> > >  $ Date: Factor w/ 1489 levels "1/10/2002","1/10/2003",..: 1275
> 1291
> > > 1295
> > > 1299 1304 1309 1321 1325 1329 1337 ...
> > >  $ a   : num  202 201 202 201 202 ...
> > >  $ b   : num  231 230 230 230 232 ...
> > >  $ c   : num  177 179 181 180 182 ...
> > >  $ d   : num  277 277 276 276 275 ...
> > >  $ e   : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
> > >  $ f   : num  275 277 279 279 279 ...
> > >  $ g   : num  91.7 90.7 90.8 91.1 91 ...
> > >  $ h   : num  11446 11258 11280 11396 11127

Re: [R] data.frame with NA

2013-03-19 Thread David L Carlson
Try this instead:

> Foglio1[,2:ncol(Foglio1)] <- na.locf(Foglio1[,2:ncol(Foglio1)],fromLast=T)
> str(Foglio1)
'data.frame':   1489 obs. of  15 variables:
 $ Date: Date, format: "2001-08-17" "2001-08-20" ...
 $ a   : num  202 201 202 201 202 ...
 $ b   : num  231 230 230 230 232 ...
 $ c   : num  177 179 181 180 182 ...
 $ d   : num  277 277 276 276 275 ...
 $ e   : num  2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 ...
 $ f   : num  275 277 279 279 279 ...
 $ g   : num  91.7 90.7 90.8 91.1 91 ...
 $ h   : num  11446 11258 11280 11396 11127 ...
 $ i   : num  388 389 393 392 393 ...
 $ l   : num  93.2 94 92.4 93.4 93.1 ...
 $ m   : num  128 127 126 129 130 ...
 $ n   : num  103 103 103 103 103 ...
 $ o   : num  133 133 133 133 133 ...
 $ p   : num  107 107 107 107 107 ...

It appears that na.locf() converts the object to a matrix at some point (but
I haven't checked the source code). The first column (the Date variable) is
treated as character. As a result, everything gets converted to character.
This will skip the first column which does not have any missing values.

--
David L Carlson
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4352


> -Original Message-
> From: Pietro [mailto:freeri...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 6:10 AM
> To: dcarl...@tamu.edu; dcarl...@tamu.edu
> Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: RE: [R] data.frame with NA
> 
> Yes, colClasses is the solution. Thank you very much.
> However i found a very strange thing.
> 
> If i use:
> Foglio1 <- read.xlsx2("mydb.xlsx", 1, colClasses=c("Date",
> rep("numeric",14)))
> 
> i get numeric dataframe, as you said.
> 
> I also get NaN (and not NA).
> 
> At this point i use the function:
> Foglio1 = na.locf(Foglio1,fromLast=T) and it works perfectly. All NaN
> 's were replaced with the first numeric value, as expected.
> 
> And now the enigma.
> 
> After na.locf function, Foglio1 become all CHR again! It seems that
> na.locf  convert from num to chr. Even Date is converted in chr.
> I'm reading the help of this function but i can't find trace about
> the possibility of this conversion.
> 
> It seems that i can't get in anyway a numeric dataframe without NA o
> NaN!
> Ok, i admit that i'm a newbie, but i'm trying every day to gain
> confidence with R
> 
> Can i ask you the courtesy to use na.locf function to see if also on
> your computer this function convert all to CHR?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> 
> 
> At 21.37 18/03/2013, David L Carlson wrote:
> >It appears that you MUST use the colClasses= argument with read.xlsx2:
> >
> >Foglio1 <- read.xlsx2("mydb.xlsx", 1, colClasses=c("Date",
> rep("numeric",
> >14)))
> >
> >However, e and n are converted to NaN not NA so you would need to
> convert
> >those columns (at least, I didn't check for missing values in the
> other
> >columns):
> >
> > > Foglio1$e <- ifelse(is.nan(Foglio1$e), NA, Foglio1$e)
> > > Foglio1$n <- ifelse(is.nan(Foglio1$n), NA, Foglio1$n)
> > > str(Foglio1)
> >'data.frame':   1489 obs. of  15 variables:
> >  $ Date: Date, format: "2001-08-17" "2001-08-20" ...
> >  $ a   : num  202 201 202 201 202 ...
> >  $ b   : num  231 230 230 230 232 ...
> >  $ c   : num  177 179 181 180 182 ...
> >  $ d   : num  277 277 276 276 275 ...
> >  $ e   : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
> >  $ f   : num  275 277 279 279 279 ...
> >  $ g   : num  91.7 90.7 90.8 91.1 91 ...
> >  $ h   : num  11446 11258 11280 11396 11127 ...
> >  $ i   : num  388 389 393 392 393 ...
> >  $ l   : num  93.2 94 92.4 93.4 93.1 ...
> >  $ m   : num  128 127 126 129 130 ...
> >  $ n   : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
> >  $ o   : num  133 133 133 133 133 ...
> >  $ p   : num  107 107 107 107 107 ...
> >
> >---
> >David
> >
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
> > > project.org] On Behalf Of David L Carlson
> > > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 3:22 PM
> > > To: 'Pietro'; 'Berend Hasselman'
> > > Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch
> > > Subject: Re: [R] data.frame with NA
> > >
> > > Try this
> > >
> > > Open the spreadsheet in Excel. Select all of the data click Copy.
> Don't
> > > close Excel.
> > >
> > > Open R and type the following command:
> > >
> > > > Fog

Re: [R] data.frame with NA

2013-03-19 Thread Pietro

Yes, colClasses is the solution. Thank you very much.
However i found a very strange thing.

If i use:
Foglio1 <- read.xlsx2("mydb.xlsx", 1, colClasses=c("Date", rep("numeric",14)))

i get numeric dataframe, as you said.

I also get NaN (and not NA).

At this point i use the function:
Foglio1 = na.locf(Foglio1,fromLast=T) and it works perfectly. All NaN 
's were replaced with the first numeric value, as expected.


And now the enigma.

After na.locf function, Foglio1 become all CHR again! It seems that 
na.locf  convert from num to chr. Even Date is converted in chr.
I'm reading the help of this function but i can't find trace about 
the possibility of this conversion.


It seems that i can't get in anyway a numeric dataframe without NA o NaN!
Ok, i admit that i'm a newbie, but i'm trying every day to gain 
confidence with R


Can i ask you the courtesy to use na.locf function to see if also on 
your computer this function convert all to CHR?


Thank you



At 21.37 18/03/2013, David L Carlson wrote:

It appears that you MUST use the colClasses= argument with read.xlsx2:

Foglio1 <- read.xlsx2("mydb.xlsx", 1, colClasses=c("Date", rep("numeric",
14)))

However, e and n are converted to NaN not NA so you would need to convert
those columns (at least, I didn't check for missing values in the other
columns):

> Foglio1$e <- ifelse(is.nan(Foglio1$e), NA, Foglio1$e)
> Foglio1$n <- ifelse(is.nan(Foglio1$n), NA, Foglio1$n)
> str(Foglio1)
'data.frame':   1489 obs. of  15 variables:
 $ Date: Date, format: "2001-08-17" "2001-08-20" ...
 $ a   : num  202 201 202 201 202 ...
 $ b   : num  231 230 230 230 232 ...
 $ c   : num  177 179 181 180 182 ...
 $ d   : num  277 277 276 276 275 ...
 $ e   : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ f   : num  275 277 279 279 279 ...
 $ g   : num  91.7 90.7 90.8 91.1 91 ...
 $ h   : num  11446 11258 11280 11396 11127 ...
 $ i   : num  388 389 393 392 393 ...
 $ l   : num  93.2 94 92.4 93.4 93.1 ...
 $ m   : num  128 127 126 129 130 ...
 $ n   : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ o   : num  133 133 133 133 133 ...
 $ p   : num  107 107 107 107 107 ...

---
David


> -Original Message-
> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of David L Carlson
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 3:22 PM
> To: 'Pietro'; 'Berend Hasselman'
> Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] data.frame with NA
>
> Try this
>
> Open the spreadsheet in Excel. Select all of the data click Copy. Don't
> close Excel.
>
> Open R and type the following command:
>
> > Foglio1 <- read.table("clipboard-128", header=TRUE, sep="\t")
>
> Now take a look at the structure of the data.frame
>
> > str(Foglio1)
> 'data.frame':   1489 obs. of  15 variables:
>  $ Date: Factor w/ 1489 levels "1/10/2002","1/10/2003",..: 1275 1291
> 1295
> 1299 1304 1309 1321 1325 1329 1337 ...
>  $ a   : num  202 201 202 201 202 ...
>  $ b   : num  231 230 230 230 232 ...
>  $ c   : num  177 179 181 180 182 ...
>  $ d   : num  277 277 276 276 275 ...
>  $ e   : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
>  $ f   : num  275 277 279 279 279 ...
>  $ g   : num  91.7 90.7 90.8 91.1 91 ...
>  $ h   : num  11446 11258 11280 11396 11127 ...
>  $ i   : num  388 389 393 392 393 ...
>  $ l   : num  93.2 94 92.4 93.4 93.1 ...
>  $ m   : num  128 127 126 129 130 ...
>  $ n   : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
>  $ o   : num  133 133 133 133 133 ...
>  $ p   : num  107 107 107 107 107 ...
>
> --
> David L Carlson
> Associate Professor of Anthropology
> Texas A&M University
> College Station, TX 77843-4352
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
> > project.org] On Behalf Of Pietro
> > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 1:57 PM
> > To: Berend Hasselman
> > Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Subject: Re: [R] data.frame with NA
> >
> > Yes, it's true Berend!
> >
> > What i do is simply use read.xlsx  function
> >
> > db <- read.xlsx2("c:/mydb.xlsx",1,as.data.frame=T)
> >
> > This is excel file i use:
> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/102669/mydb.xlsx
> >
> > I can't find  a way to import as numeric.
> > My objective is to be able to work (in R) with my NA's
> >
> >
> > At 18.46 18/03/2013, Berend Hasselman wrote:
> >
> > >On 18-03-2013, at 16:49, Pete  wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I have this little data.frame
> > > >
> >

Re: [R] data.frame with NA

2013-03-18 Thread David L Carlson
It appears that you MUST use the colClasses= argument with read.xlsx2:

Foglio1 <- read.xlsx2("mydb.xlsx", 1, colClasses=c("Date", rep("numeric",
14)))

However, e and n are converted to NaN not NA so you would need to convert
those columns (at least, I didn't check for missing values in the other
columns):

> Foglio1$e <- ifelse(is.nan(Foglio1$e), NA, Foglio1$e)
> Foglio1$n <- ifelse(is.nan(Foglio1$n), NA, Foglio1$n)
> str(Foglio1)
'data.frame':   1489 obs. of  15 variables:
 $ Date: Date, format: "2001-08-17" "2001-08-20" ...
 $ a   : num  202 201 202 201 202 ...
 $ b   : num  231 230 230 230 232 ...
 $ c   : num  177 179 181 180 182 ...
 $ d   : num  277 277 276 276 275 ...
 $ e   : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ f   : num  275 277 279 279 279 ...
 $ g   : num  91.7 90.7 90.8 91.1 91 ...
 $ h   : num  11446 11258 11280 11396 11127 ...
 $ i   : num  388 389 393 392 393 ...
 $ l   : num  93.2 94 92.4 93.4 93.1 ...
 $ m   : num  128 127 126 129 130 ...
 $ n   : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ o   : num  133 133 133 133 133 ...
 $ p   : num  107 107 107 107 107 ...

---
David


> -Original Message-
> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of David L Carlson
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 3:22 PM
> To: 'Pietro'; 'Berend Hasselman'
> Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] data.frame with NA
> 
> Try this
> 
> Open the spreadsheet in Excel. Select all of the data click Copy. Don't
> close Excel.
> 
> Open R and type the following command:
> 
> > Foglio1 <- read.table("clipboard-128", header=TRUE, sep="\t")
> 
> Now take a look at the structure of the data.frame
> 
> > str(Foglio1)
> 'data.frame':   1489 obs. of  15 variables:
>  $ Date: Factor w/ 1489 levels "1/10/2002","1/10/2003",..: 1275 1291
> 1295
> 1299 1304 1309 1321 1325 1329 1337 ...
>  $ a   : num  202 201 202 201 202 ...
>  $ b   : num  231 230 230 230 232 ...
>  $ c   : num  177 179 181 180 182 ...
>  $ d   : num  277 277 276 276 275 ...
>  $ e   : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
>  $ f   : num  275 277 279 279 279 ...
>  $ g   : num  91.7 90.7 90.8 91.1 91 ...
>  $ h   : num  11446 11258 11280 11396 11127 ...
>  $ i   : num  388 389 393 392 393 ...
>  $ l   : num  93.2 94 92.4 93.4 93.1 ...
>  $ m   : num  128 127 126 129 130 ...
>  $ n   : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
>  $ o   : num  133 133 133 133 133 ...
>  $ p   : num  107 107 107 107 107 ...
> 
> --
> David L Carlson
> Associate Professor of Anthropology
> Texas A&M University
> College Station, TX 77843-4352
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
> > project.org] On Behalf Of Pietro
> > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 1:57 PM
> > To: Berend Hasselman
> > Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Subject: Re: [R] data.frame with NA
> >
> > Yes, it's true Berend!
> >
> > What i do is simply use read.xlsx  function
> >
> > db <- read.xlsx2("c:/mydb.xlsx",1,as.data.frame=T)
> >
> > This is excel file i use:
> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/102669/mydb.xlsx
> >
> > I can't find  a way to import as numeric.
> > My objective is to be able to work (in R) with my NA's
> >
> >
> > At 18.46 18/03/2013, Berend Hasselman wrote:
> >
> > >On 18-03-2013, at 16:49, Pete  wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I have this little data.frame
> > > >
> > > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/102669/nanotna.rdata
> > > >
> > > > Two column contains NA, so the best thing to do is use na.locf
> > > function (with
> > > > fromLast = T)
> > > >
> > > > But locf function doesn't work because NA in my data.frame are
> > > not recognized as
> > > > real NA.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way to substitute fake NA with real NA? In this case
> > > na.locf function
> > > > should work
> > > >
> > >
> > >Your data are all characters. Do
> > >
> > >str(db)
> > >
> > >to see that. What is probably supposed to be numeric is also
> > character,
> > >Somehow you have managed to read in data that R thinks is all chr.
> > >Your NA are "NA" in reality: a character string "NA".
> > >
> > >You will have to review the method you used to get the data into R.
> > >A

Re: [R] data.frame with NA

2013-03-18 Thread David L Carlson
Try this

Open the spreadsheet in Excel. Select all of the data click Copy. Don't
close Excel.

Open R and type the following command:

> Foglio1 <- read.table("clipboard-128", header=TRUE, sep="\t")

Now take a look at the structure of the data.frame

> str(Foglio1)
'data.frame':   1489 obs. of  15 variables:
 $ Date: Factor w/ 1489 levels "1/10/2002","1/10/2003",..: 1275 1291 1295
1299 1304 1309 1321 1325 1329 1337 ...
 $ a   : num  202 201 202 201 202 ...
 $ b   : num  231 230 230 230 232 ...
 $ c   : num  177 179 181 180 182 ...
 $ d   : num  277 277 276 276 275 ...
 $ e   : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ f   : num  275 277 279 279 279 ...
 $ g   : num  91.7 90.7 90.8 91.1 91 ...
 $ h   : num  11446 11258 11280 11396 11127 ...
 $ i   : num  388 389 393 392 393 ...
 $ l   : num  93.2 94 92.4 93.4 93.1 ...
 $ m   : num  128 127 126 129 130 ...
 $ n   : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ o   : num  133 133 133 133 133 ...
 $ p   : num  107 107 107 107 107 ...

--
David L Carlson
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4352

> -Original Message-
> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Pietro
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 1:57 PM
> To: Berend Hasselman
> Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] data.frame with NA
> 
> Yes, it's true Berend!
> 
> What i do is simply use read.xlsx  function
> 
> db <- read.xlsx2("c:/mydb.xlsx",1,as.data.frame=T)
> 
> This is excel file i use:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/102669/mydb.xlsx
> 
> I can't find  a way to import as numeric.
> My objective is to be able to work (in R) with my NA's
> 
> 
> At 18.46 18/03/2013, Berend Hasselman wrote:
> 
> >On 18-03-2013, at 16:49, Pete  wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I have this little data.frame
> > >
> > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/102669/nanotna.rdata
> > >
> > > Two column contains NA, so the best thing to do is use na.locf
> > function (with
> > > fromLast = T)
> > >
> > > But locf function doesn't work because NA in my data.frame are
> > not recognized as
> > > real NA.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to substitute fake NA with real NA? In this case
> > na.locf function
> > > should work
> > >
> >
> >Your data are all characters. Do
> >
> >str(db)
> >
> >to see that. What is probably supposed to be numeric is also
> character,
> >Somehow you have managed to read in data that R thinks is all chr.
> >Your NA are "NA" in reality: a character string "NA".
> >
> >You will have to review the method you used to get the data into R.
> >And make sure that what you want to be numeric is indeed numeric.
> >Then you can start to think about doing something about the NA's.
> >
> >Berend
> 
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Re: [R] data.frame with NA

2013-03-18 Thread Pietro

Yes, it's true Berend!

What i do is simply use read.xlsx  function

db <- read.xlsx2("c:/mydb.xlsx",1,as.data.frame=T)

This is excel file i use:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/102669/mydb.xlsx

I can't find  a way to import as numeric.
My objective is to be able to work (in R) with my NA's


At 18.46 18/03/2013, Berend Hasselman wrote:


On 18-03-2013, at 16:49, Pete  wrote:

>
> I have this little data.frame
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/102669/nanotna.rdata
>
> Two column contains NA, so the best thing to do is use na.locf 
function (with

> fromLast = T)
>
> But locf function doesn't work because NA in my data.frame are 
not recognized as

> real NA.
>
> Is there a way to substitute fake NA with real NA? In this case 
na.locf function

> should work
>

Your data are all characters. Do

str(db)

to see that. What is probably supposed to be numeric is also character,
Somehow you have managed to read in data that R thinks is all chr.
Your NA are "NA" in reality: a character string "NA".

You will have to review the method you used to get the data into R.
And make sure that what you want to be numeric is indeed numeric.
Then you can start to think about doing something about the NA's.

Berend


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Re: [R] data.frame with NA

2013-03-18 Thread Berend Hasselman

On 18-03-2013, at 19:57, Pietro  wrote:

> Yes, it's true Berend!
> 
> What i do is simply use read.xlsx  function
> 
> db <- read.xlsx2("c:/mydb.xlsx",1,as.data.frame=T)
> 
> This is excel file i use:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/102669/mydb.xlsx
> 

I don't have the required packages installed to read .xlsx files since I have 
no need.
But I can load your xlsx in LibreOffice without any issues.
I'm not sure what read.xslx2 actually does with columns. It seems that is 
regards the colClass of all columns as "character".
So maybe you should try read.xlsx or export the file as a .csv
Or specify colClasses.

Berend


> I can't find  a way to import as numeric.
> My objective is to be able to work (in R) with my NA's
> 
> 
> At 18.46 18/03/2013, Berend Hasselman wrote:
> 
>> On 18-03-2013, at 16:49, Pete  wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> > I have this little data.frame
>> >
>> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/102669/nanotna.rdata
>> >
>> > Two column contains NA, so the best thing to do is use na.locf function 
>> > (with
>> > fromLast = T)
>> >
>> > But locf function doesn't work because NA in my data.frame are not 
>> > recognized as
>> > real NA.
>> >
>> > Is there a way to substitute fake NA with real NA? In this case na.locf 
>> > function
>> > should work
>> >
>> 
>> Your data are all characters. Do
>> 
>> str(db)
>> 
>> to see that. What is probably supposed to be numeric is also character,
>> Somehow you have managed to read in data that R thinks is all chr.
>> Your NA are "NA" in reality: a character string "NA".
>> 
>> You will have to review the method you used to get the data into R.
>> And make sure that what you want to be numeric is indeed numeric.
>> Then you can start to think about doing something about the NA's.
>> 
>> Berend
> 

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Re: [R] data.frame with NA

2013-03-18 Thread Berend Hasselman

On 18-03-2013, at 16:49, Pete  wrote:

> 
> I have this little data.frame
> 
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/102669/nanotna.rdata
> 
> Two column contains NA, so the best thing to do is use na.locf function (with
> fromLast = T)
> 
> But locf function doesn't work because NA in my data.frame are not recognized 
> as
> real NA.
> 
> Is there a way to substitute fake NA with real NA? In this case na.locf 
> function
> should work
> 

Your data are all characters. Do

str(db)

to see that. What is probably supposed to be numeric is also character,
Somehow you have managed to read in data that R thinks is all chr.
Your NA are "NA" in reality: a character string "NA".

You will have to review the method you used to get the data into R.
And make sure that what you want to be numeric is indeed numeric.
Then you can start to think about doing something about the NA's.

Berend

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