Re: [R] replacing Na's in a vector with the preceding integer element

2008-11-13 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
See na.locf in the zoo package. It does exactly that. On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:07 PM, ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have a vector where an integer is followed by a randomly varying number of > NA elements. I want to replace the NA's with the preceding integer. Let me > explain wit

[R] replacing Na's in a vector with the preceding integer element

2008-11-13 Thread ravi
Hi, I have a vector where an integer is followed by a randomly varying number of NA elements. I want to replace the NA's with the preceding integer. Let me explain with a simple example : avec<- c(1,NA,NA,5,NA,3,4,NA,NA,NA,NA,9,NA,0,NA,NA) I want to get the following vector from a : bvec<-c(1,1,1