[R] filtering values
Thomas Lumley
thomas at biostat.washington.edu
Wed Jul 5 17:49:04 CEST 2000
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, amorgan wrote:
> I was wondering if there is a simple way to filter out a bunch of
> specific vales from a vector (eg zero).
x[x!=42] removes all the 42s
x[!is.na(x)] removes all the NAs
> Also, is there a way to create a null vector? What I mean by this is
> that if I declare a vector vector <- NA, it is a vector with [NA]. I
> want an empty vector, so that I can append to it later.
numeric(0) is a vector of length 0. Remember that repeatedly appending is
slower than creating a vector and then putting things in it.
-thomas
Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle
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