[R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame

2009-08-18 Thread Steve Murray
Dear all, I'm trying to replace NA values with - in one column of a data frame. I've tried using is.na and the testdata[testdata$onecolumn==NA] - approach, but whilst neither generate errors, neither result in -s appearing - the NAs remain there! I'd be grateful for any advice

Re: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame

2009-08-18 Thread jim holtman
testdata[is.na(testdata$onecolumn)] - - On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Steve Murraysmurray...@hotmail.com wrote: Dear all, I'm trying to replace NA values with - in one column of a data frame. I've tried using is.na and the testdata[testdata$onecolumn==NA] - approach, but

Re: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame

2009-08-18 Thread Uwe Ligges
values in one column of a data.frame To: r-help@r-project.org Received: Monday, August 17, 2009, 11:41 AM Dear all, I'm trying to replace NA values with - in one column of a data frame. I've tried using is.na and the testdata[testdata$onecolumn==NA] - approach, but whilst neither generate

Re: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame

2009-08-18 Thread Steve Lianoglou
20 NA NA R a[is.na(a)] -999 R a [1] 1 2 3 999 999 10 20 999 999 Hope that helps, -steve --- On Mon, 8/17/09, Steve Murray smurray...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Steve Murray smurray...@hotmail.com Subject: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame To: r-help@r-project.org

Re: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame

2009-08-18 Thread John Kane
OOPs clumsy cut and paste. :( --- On Tue, 8/18/09, Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de wrote: From: Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de Subject: Re: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame To: John Kane jrkrid...@yahoo.ca Cc: r-help@r-project.org, Steve Murray

Re: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame

2009-08-18 Thread Bert Gunter
-Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Steve Lianoglou Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 7:25 AM To: John Kane Cc: r-help@r-project.org; Steve Murray Subject: Re: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame

Re: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame

2009-08-18 Thread John Kane
Clearly the poor user needs to export something to one of those archaic stats systems like SAS or SPSS :) --- On Tue, 8/18/09, Bert Gunter gunter.ber...@gene.com wrote: From: Bert Gunter gunter.ber...@gene.com Subject: RE: [R] Replacing NA values in one column of a data.frame To: 'Steve