[R] vector of NA indices

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Friedrich Leisch wrote:

> >>>>> On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 04:09:21,
> >>>>> Peter B Mandeville (PBM) wrote:
> 
> PBM> I have a vector Pes with 600 elements some of which are NA's. How can I
> PBM> form a vector of the indices of the NA's.
> 
> PBM> 	for(i in 1:600) if(is.na(Pes[i])) print(i)
> 
> PBM> prints the indices of the NA's but I can't figure out how to put the
> PBM> results in a vector.
> 
> try this:
> 
> x <- (1:length(Pes))[is.na(Pes)]

Tip: that sort of thing often fails for a length 0 vector. The `approved'
spell is

seq(along=Pes)[is.na(Pes)]

In this case it does not matter as the subscript is of length 0, but it
has floored enough library/package writers to be worth thinking about.

Brian

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